GitLab Discloses Critical DoS Flaw Affecting Multiple Versions

CVE-2024-7610

6.5MEDIUM

Key Information

Vendor
Gitlab
Status
Gitlab
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 August 2024

Summary

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting with 15.9 before 17.0.6, 17.1 prior to 17.1.4, and 17.2 prior to 17.2.2. It is possible for an attacker to cause catastrophic backtracking while parsing results from Elasticsearch.

Affected Version(s)

GitLab < 17.0.6

GitLab < 17.1.4

GitLab < 17.2.2

Refferences

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/468917
issue-trackingpermissions-required

CVSS V3.1

Score:
6.5
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
None
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability Reserved

  • Vulnerability published

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

This vulnerability was discovered internally by GitLab team member [Terri Chu](https://gitlab.com/terrichu)
.