Security advisory

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  "id": "3d98b23ab7fba1f7594ed10fcdcd673e59c7b60f23f6b372aee5e8585b37948b",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2020-26414",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2020-26414",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2020-26414",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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      "id": "CVE-2020-26414",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2020-26414",
        "CVE-2020-26414"
      ],
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
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                },
                {
                  "fixed": "06fb068aba3228f300966c8b178bc8ab6d7d1149"
                },
                {
                  "introduced": "c050e8fb184690b8c4cc4c2a5c233f312d713b09"
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                  "fixed": "5f4e8035ffe3e92941384242aabb64f911b94260"
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                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
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                        "introduced": "12.4.0"
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                        "fixed": "13.5.6"
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                  },
                  {
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                        "fixed": "13.5.6"
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                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
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                      {
                        "introduced": "13.6.0"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "13.6.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
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                        "introduced": "13.6.0"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "13.6.4"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
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                      {
                        "introduced": "13.7.0"
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                      {
                        "fixed": "13.7.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
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                        "fixed": "13.7.2"
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                    ],
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                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v13.7.1-ee",
            "v13.6.3-ee",
            "v13.7.0-ee",
            "v13.6.1-ee",
            "v13.6.0-ee"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-26414.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:52.682170119Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2020/CVE-2020-26414.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/270199"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2020-26414",
        "evidence": "/id"
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    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 429488,
  "published_at": "2021-01-15T16:15:12.967+00:00"
}