CVE-2020-13349: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 8.12.0, before 13.3.9 (fixed in 13.3.9); from 13.4.0, before 13.4.5 (fixed in 13.4.5); from 13.5.0, before 13.5.2 (fixed in 13.5.2)

Published 2020-11-17. Last modified 2026-06-17.