Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU89760

Input validation error in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2024-2874

Published: May 23, 2024

Vulnerability identifier: #VU89760

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4: 7.1 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-2874

CWE-ID: CWE-20

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 insufficient validation of user-supplied input in the "description" field of the runner. A remote user can pass specially crafted input to the application and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

Affected software

Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition

How to mitigate CVE-2024-2874

Install updates from vendor's website.

Gitlab Community Edition - addressed in versions 16.10.6, 16.11.3, 17.0.1
GitLab Enterprise Edition - addressed in versions 16.10.6, 16.11.3, 17.0.1

External References

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/05/22/patch-release-gitlab-17-0-1-released/

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