Observable discrepancy in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2024-3958

 

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: 6.9 [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]
CVE-ID: CVE-2024-3958
CWE-ID: CWE-203
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

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


Affected software

Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition

How to mitigate CVE-2024-3958

Install updates from vendor's website.

Gitlab Community Edition - addressed in versions 17.0.6, 17.1.4, 17.2.2
GitLab Enterprise Edition - addressed in versions 17.0.6, 17.1.4, 17.2.2

External References

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