CVE-2020-13349

Publication date 17 November 2020

Last updated 17 July 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 8.12. A regular expression related to a file path resulted in the Advanced Search feature susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. Affected versions are >=8.12, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gitlab	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Notes

alexmurray

Only affects GitLab Enterprise Edition (EE) so gitlab in Ubuntu is unaffected.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.3 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	Low
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

References

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-13349