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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-15722

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.15 through 12.2.1. Particular mathematical expressions in GitLab Markdown can exhaust client resources.

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CVE-2019-15722
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1 Nov 2026, 05:05 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-15722

core-osv · Original source

Published 16 Sept 2019, 17:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.15 through 12.2.1. Particular mathematical expressions in GitLab Markdown can exhaust client resources.

osv:CVE-2019-15722
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-15722",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2019-15722",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition 8.15 through 12.2.1. Particular mathematical expressions in GitLab Markdown can exhaust client resources.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-15722",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
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          "versions": [
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            "v12.1.4-ee",
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            "v12.1.2-ee",
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:48.424144984Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/2019/08/29/security-release-gitlab-12-dot-2-dot-3-released/",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/61410"
      ],
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    },
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        "value": "CVE-2019-15722",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 431174,
  "published_at": "2019-09-16T17:15:13.447+00:00"
}