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CVE-2024-9367 (GCVE-0-2024-9367)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-12-12 12:02 – Updated: 2024-12-12 15:44
VLAI
Title
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
Summary
An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.9 before 17.4.6, 17.5 before 17.5.4, and 17.6 before 17.6.2, that allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled CPU consumption, potentially leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition while parsing templates to generate changelogs.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2024-12-12 15:21 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/496631 issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://hackerone.com/reports/2735311 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 13.9 , < 17.4.6 (semver)
Affected: 17.5 , < 17.5.4 (semver)
Affected: 17.6 , < 17.6.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [l33thaxor](https://hackerone.com/l33thaxor) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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