CVE-2024-6324

Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 4.3 Medium
Published: Jan 9, 2025
Updated: Jan 9, 2025
Reserved: Jun 25, 2024

Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.7 prior to 17.5.5, starting from 17.6 prior to 17.6.3, and starting from 17.7 prior to 17.7.1. It was possible to trigger a DoS by creating cyclic references between epics.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	4.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-407 Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	17.7 to before 17.7.1Affected 17.6 to before 17.6.3Affected 15.7 to before 17.5.5Affected

References

GitLab Issue #468914issue-trackingpermissions-required
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/01/08/patch-release-gitlab-17-7-1-released/#cyclic-reference-of-epics-leads-resource-exhaustion
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2553716technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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