CVE-2022-3613 is a Denial of Service (DoS) vulnerability affecting GitLab CE/EE versions prior to 15.5.7, 15.6.4, and 15.7.2. A remote unauthenticated attacker can craft a specific Prometheus Server query to induce high resource consumption on vulnerable GitLab instances. This vulnerability carries a CVSSv3.1 score of 7.5 (High), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and a high impact on availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in the CISA KEV catalog. While community discussion and media coverage are minimal, GitLab has released security updates to address this issue.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 15.5.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
< 15.5.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 15.6.0, < 15.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 15.6.0, < 15.6.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 15.7.0, < 15.7.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.