{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26414","details":"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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:48:47Z","published":"2021-01-15T16:15:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2020-26414"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-26414"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2021/01/07/security-release-gitlab-13-7-2-released/"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-26414"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gitlab","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/gitlab@8.5.8+dfsg-5?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["8.4.3+dfsg-9","8.4.3+dfsg-12","8.5.8+dfsg-5"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"gitlab","binary_version":"8.5.8+dfsg-5"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2020/UBUNTU-CVE-2020-26414.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}