Vulnerability · Published Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by GitLab

CVE-2024-5423Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in GitLab

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity uncontrolled resource consumption in GitLab from GitLab. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.5% (higher than 40% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium
Exploit odds (30 days)0.5%top 59.5% of all CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none
Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Multiple Denial of Service (DoS) conditions has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 1.0 prior to 17.0.6, starting from 17.1 prior to 17.1.4, and starting from 17.2 prior to 17.2.2 which allowed an attacker to cause resource exhaustion via banzai pipeline.

Affected products (as reported)

VendorProductVersions
GitLab GitLab 1 – before 17.0.617.1 – before 17.1.417.2 – before 17.2.2

Weakness: CWE-400 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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