Observable discrepancy in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2024-3958
Published: August 8, 2024
Vulnerability identifier: #VU95537
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3958
CWE-ID: CWE-203
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: GitLab, Inc
Affected software:
Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition
Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to compromise the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to ambiguous tag name exploitation. A remote attacker can abuse a discrepancy between the Web application display and the git command line interface to social engineer victims into cloning non-trusted code
How to mitigate CVE-2024-3958
Install updates from vendor's website.