CVE-2024-2829

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Apr 25, 2024
Updated: Nov 20, 2025
Reserved: Mar 22, 2024

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.5 before 16.9.6, all versions starting from 16.10 before 16.10.4, all versions starting from 16.11 before 16.11.1. A crafted wildcard filter in FileFinder may lead to a denial of service.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	12.5 to before 16.9.6Affected 16.10 to before 16.10.4Affected 16.11 to before 16.11.1Affected

References

GitLab Issue #451456issue-trackingpermissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2416728technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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