CVE-2020-26414: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.4. The regex used for package names is written in a way that makes execution time have quadratic growth based on the length of the malicious input string.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 12.4.0, before 13.5.6 (fixed in 13.5.6); from 13.6.0, before 13.6.4 (fixed in 13.6.4); from 13.7.0, before 13.7.2 (fixed in 13.7.2)

Published 2021-01-15. Last modified 2026-06-17.