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Comment by phoe-krk

4 hours ago

Deeper in the article: https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitla...

GitLab has remediated an issue that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an unauthenticated user to execute arbitrary code on the GitLab server due to integer overflow when compiling a specially crafted regular expression. (...)

CVSS 10.0 (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H)

Here, CVSS 10.0 means arbitrary remote code execution.

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tptacek  4 hours ago

"Arbitrary RCE" does mean something. "CVSS 10.0" does not. We should be using the article headline here.

  • phoe-krk  4 hours ago

    Truth be told, I don't think that "GitLab Critical Patch Release: 19.5.1, 19.4.3, 19.3.6, 19.2.9, 19.1.9, 19.0.10, 18.11.13" is a more descriptive title, even taking the HN guidelines into account. It could be better, sure, but it's not horrible (IMO).

    • tptacek  3 hours ago

      It's an editorialization. The submitter is saying something about the importance of CVSS that the article does not. A better title would say "Remote Code Execution" where it says "CVSS 10.0" now.