Medium
Security advisory
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 8.12. A regular expression related to a file path resulted in the Advanced Search feature susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. Affected versions are >=8.12, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2020-13349
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 8.12. A regular expression related to a file path resulted in the Advanced Search feature susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. Affected versions are >=8.12, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.
osv:CVE-2020-13349
Complete source record
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"summary": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 8.12. A regular expression related to a file path resulted in the Advanced Search feature susceptible to catastrophic backtracking. Affected versions are >=8.12, <13.3.9,>=13.4, <13.4.5,>=13.5, <13.5.2.",
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"published_at": "2020-11-17T19:15:11.2+00:00"
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