VDB-269777 · CVE-2024-4557 · Issue 460517

GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 16.11.4/17.0.2/17.1.0 Banzai Pipeline resource consumption

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability marked as problematic has been reported in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 16.11.4/17.0.2/17.1.0. This affects an unknown part of the component Banzai Pipeline Handler. The manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-4557. The attack is possible to be carried out remotely. No exploit exists. It is suggested to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability, which was classified as critical, has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 16.11.4/17.0.2/17.1.0. This issue affects an unknown code of the component Banzai Pipeline Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to 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. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

Multiple Denial of Service (DoS) conditions has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 1.0 prior to 16.11.5, starting from 17.0 prior to 17.0.3, and starting from 17.1 prior to 17.1.1 which allowed an attacker to cause resource exhaustion via banzai pipeline.

The weakness was disclosed by joaxcar as 460517. The advisory is shared at gitlab.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-4557 since 05/06/2024. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be initiated 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 16.11.5, 17.0.3 or 17.1.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

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Productinfo

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Bug Tracking Software

Vendor

GitLab

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open-source

Website

Vendor: https://gitlab.com/

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.4

VulDB Base Score: 6.5
VulDB Temp Score: 6.2
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CNA Base Score: 6.5
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Exploitinginfo

Class: Resource consumption
CWE: CWE-400 / CWE-404
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Physical: No
Local: No
Remote: Yes

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Status: Not defined

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Threat Intelligenceinfo

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Countermeasuresinfo

Recommended: Upgrade
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Upgrade: Community Edition/Enterprise Edition 16.11.5/17.0.3/17.1.1

Timelineinfo

05/06/2024 🔍
06/27/2024 +52 days 🔍
06/27/2024 +0 days 🔍
06/29/2024 +2 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Vendor: gitlab.com

Advisory: 460517
Researcher: joaxcar
Status: Confirmed

CVE: CVE-2024-4557 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-4557
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-269777

Entryinfo

Created: 06/27/2024 06:28
Updated: 06/29/2024 08:17
Changes: 06/27/2024 06:28 (67), 06/29/2024 08:17 (11)
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