CVE-2024-2878 | THREATINT

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.7 prior to 16.9.7, starting from 16.10 prior to 16.10.5, and starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.2. It was possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service by crafting unusual search terms for branch names.

Reserved 2024-03-25 | Published 2025-02-05 | Updated 2025-02-05 | Assigner GitLab

HIGH: 7.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

Default status

unaffected

15.7 before 16.9.7

affected

16.10 before 16.10.5

affected

16.11 before 16.11.2

affected

Credits

Thanks [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/451918 (GitLab Issue #451918) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/2416356 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2416356) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2024-2878)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-2878)

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