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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 15.2 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1 in which the projects API pagination can be skipped, potentially leading to DoS on certain instances.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2023-4647
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 18:27 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Sept 2023, 10:30 UTC

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 15.2 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1 in which the projects API pagination can be skipped, potentially leading to DoS on certain instances.

osv:CVE-2023-4647
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2023-4647",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab",
    "summary": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 15.2 before 16.1.5, all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.2.5, all versions starting from 16.3 before 16.3.1 in which the projects API pagination can be skipped, potentially leading to DoS on certain instances.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2023-4647",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2023-4647",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2023-4647",
        "CVE-2023-4647"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
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          ],
          "versions": [
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            "v16.2.3-ee",
            "v16.3.0-ee",
            "v16.2.1-ee",
            "v16.2.0-ee"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
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          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-28T02:30:31.484973600Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2023/4xxx/CVE-2023-4647.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4647",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/414502"
      ],
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      }
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 498429,
  "published_at": "2023-09-01T10:30:27.108+00:00"
}