CVE-2024-8233 (GCVE-0-2024-8233)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2024-12-12 12:02
Modified
2024-12-12 15:44
Severity ?
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-407 - Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.4 before 17.4.6, 17.5 before 17.5.4, and 17.6 before 17.6.2. An attacker could cause a denial of service with requests for diff files on a commit or merge request.
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Impacted products
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GitLab GitLab Version: 9.4   ≤
Version: 17.5   ≤
Version: 17.6   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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