CVE-2020-13354
mediumpriority · track · 18EPSS 0.014 · 73 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE starting with version 12.6. The container registry name check could cause exponential number of backtracks for certain user supplied values resulting in high CPU usage. Affected versions are: >=12.6, <13.3.9.
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affected products (4)
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advisories (1)
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- BIT-gitlab-2020-133542024-03-06vendor · osvUS
A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE starting with version 12.6. The container registry name check could cause exponential number of backtracks for certain user supplied values resulting in high CPU usage. Affected versions are: >=12.6, <13.3.9.
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references (12)
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- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/11/02/security-release-gitlab-13-5-2-released/Patchcnnvd
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-13354.jsoncnnvd
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/220019cnnvd
- https://hackerone.com/reports/869875cnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-13354cnnvd
- https://www.auscert.org.au/bulletins/ESB-2020.3788/cnnvd
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-13354.jsonenisa_euvd
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/220019enisa_euvd
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