CVE-2024-8186

Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 5.4 Medium
Published: Mar 3, 2025
Updated: Mar 3, 2025
Reserved: Aug 26, 2024

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 17.7.6, 17.8 before 17.8.4, and 17.9 before 17.9.1. An attacker could inject HMTL into the child item search potentially leading to XSS in certain situations.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.4 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	16.6 to before 17.7.6Affected 17.8 to before 17.8.4Affected 17.9 to before 17.9.1Affected

References

GitLab Issue #480751issue-trackingpermissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2655757technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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