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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-6785

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It allows Denial of Service. Inputting an overly long string into a Markdown field could cause a denial of service.

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CVE-2019-6785
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1 Nov 2026, 07:30 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-6785

core-osv · Original source

Published 9 Sept 2019, 20:15 UTC

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It allows Denial of Service. Inputting an overly long string into a Markdown field could cause a denial of service.

osv:CVE-2019-6785
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-6785",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2019-6785",
    "summary": "An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.5.8, 11.6.x before 11.6.6, and 11.7.x before 11.7.1. It allows Denial of Service. Inputting an overly long string into a Markdown field could cause a denial of service.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-6785",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:53.195883852Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/2019/01/31/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-7-dot-3-released/",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/52212"
      ],
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 438140,
  "published_at": "2019-09-09T20:15:11.48+00:00"
}