GitLab Vulnerability: Regex Execution Time Quadratic Growth

GitLab Vulnerability: Regex Execution Time Quadratic Growth

CVE-2020-26414 · MEDIUM Severity

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.4. The regex used for package names is written in a way that makes execution time have quadratic growth based on the length of the malicious input string.

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