CVE-2024-2434

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 8.5 High
Published: Apr 25, 2024
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Reserved: Mar 13, 2024

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions of GitLab CE/EE 16.9 prior to 16.9.6, 16.10 prior to 16.10.4, and 16.11 prior to 16.11.1 where path traversal could lead to DoS and restricted file read.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	16.9 to before 16.9.6Affected 16.10 to before 16.10.4Affected 16.11 to before 16.11.1Affected

References

GitLab Issue #450303issue-tracking
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2401952technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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