Resource exhaustion in GitLab Enterprise Edition and Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2024-11828

 

Resource exhaustion in GitLab Enterprise Edition and Gitlab Community Edition - CVE-2024-11828

Published: November 27, 2024


Vulnerability identifier: #VU100978
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 5.3 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11828
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within test_report API calls. A remote user can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Affected software

GitLab Enterprise Edition
Gitlab Community Edition

How to mitigate CVE-2024-11828

Install updates from vendor's website.

GitLab Enterprise Edition - addressed in versions 17.4.5, 17.5.3, 17.6.1
Gitlab Community Edition - addressed in versions 17.4.5, 17.5.3, 17.6.1

External References

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