Incorrect Regular Expression in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2024-1736
Published: June 13, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU92081
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-2024-1736
CWE-ID: CWE-185
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 input validation when processing regular expressions in CI interpolation. A remote user can pass specially crafted data to the application and perform regular expression denial of service (ReDos) attack.
Affected software
Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition
How to mitigate CVE-2024-1736
Install updates from vendor's website.
Gitlab Community Edition - addressed in versions 16.10.7, 16.11.4, 17.0.2
GitLab Enterprise Edition - addressed in versions 16.10.7, 16.11.4, 17.0.2
GitLab Enterprise Edition - addressed in versions 16.10.7, 16.11.4, 17.0.2