A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 16.10.6/16.11.3/17.0.1. This affects an unknown code of the component File Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. CWE is classifying the issue as CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. This is going to have an impact on availability. The summary by CVE is:

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.1 prior to 16.10.7, starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.4, and starting from 17.0 prior to 17.0.2. It was possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service using maliciously crafted file.

The weakness was shared by joaxcar as 441807. The advisory is shared at gitlab.com. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-1495 since 02/14/2024. The exploitability is told to be easy. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available. MITRE ATT&CK project uses the attack technique T1499 for this issue.

Upgrading to version 16.10.7, 16.11.4 or 17.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at about.gitlab.com.

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Type

• Bug Tracking Software

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• GitLab

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• Community Edition
• Enterprise Edition

Version

• 16.10.0
• 16.10.1
• 16.10.2
• 16.10.3
• 16.10.4
• 16.10.5
• 16.10.6
• 16.11.0
• 16.11.1
• 16.11.2
• 16.11.3
• 17.0.0
• 17.0.1

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• open-source

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