CVE-2020-13333: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab versions 13.1, 13.2 and 13.3. The api to update an asset as a link from a release had a regex check which caused exponential number of backtracks for certain user supplied values resulting in high CPU usage.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: version 13.1.0 only; version 13.2.0 only; version 13.3.0 only

Published 2020-10-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.