CVE-2023-1787 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GitLab versions 15.9 through 15.9.3 and 15.10.0. A specially crafted HTML payload in an issue description could trigger a search timeout, leading to a denial of service. The attack requires no privileges and is of low complexity, but its impact is limited to availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or Metasploit/Nuclei modules, though it has received some community and media attention.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 15.9.0, < 15.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 15.9.0, < 15.9.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
15.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:15.10.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
15.10.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:15.10.0:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.