Check Point Advisories

GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Denial Of Service (Redos) (CVE-2023-6502)

Vulnerability
Protection

Check Point Reference:	CPAI-2023-1887
Date Published:	5 Sep 2024
Severity:	Medium
Last Updated:	Thursday 05 September, 2024
Source:
Industry Reference:	CVE-2023-6502
Protection Provided by:	Security Gateway R81, R80, R77, R75
Who is Vulnerable?	GitLab GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) 16.10 prior to 16.10.6 GitLab GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) 16.11 prior to 16.11.3 GitLab GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) 17.0 prior to 17.0.1
Vulnerability Description	A regular expression denial of service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition. Successfully exploiting this vulnerability could result in a denial of service condition for the target system.

Protection Overview

This protection detects attempts to exploit this vulnerability.

In order for the protection to be activated, update your Security Gateway product to the latest IPS update. For information on how to update IPS, go to SBP-2006-05, click on Protection tab and select the version of your choice.

Security Gateway R81 / R80 / R77 / R75

In the IPS tab, click Protections and find the GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Denial Of Service (Redos) (CVE-2023-6502) protection using the Search tool and Edit the protection's settings.
Install policy on all Security Gateways.

This protection's log will contain the following information:

Attack Name: Web Server Enforcement Violation.
Attack Information: GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Denial Of Service (Redos) (CVE-2023-6502)