CVE-2024-8973

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: May 9, 2025
Updated: May 9, 2025
Reserved: Sep 18, 2024

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.1 prior to 17.9.8, from 17.10 prior to 17.10.6, and from 17.11 prior to 17.11.2. It was possible to cause a DoS condition via GitHub import requests using a malicious crafted payload.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	17.1 to before 17.9.8Affected 17.10 to before 17.10.6Affected 17.11 to before 17.11.2Affected

References

GitLab Issue #491041issue-trackingpermissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2711684technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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