What’s Vulnerable › Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-1963: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in GitLab

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2024-06-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-1333

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.4 prior to 16.10.7, starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.4, and starting from 17.0 prior to 17.0.2. A vulnerability in GitLab's Asana integration allowed an attacker to potentially cause a regular expression denial of service by sending specially crafted requests.

Affected products

• GitLab: from 8.4 before 16.10.7; from 16.11.0 before 16.11.4; from 17.0 through 17.0.2; from 17.0 before 17.0.2 — fixed in 16.10.7, 16.11.4, 17.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 16.10.7, 16.11.4, 17.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/06/12/patch-release-gitlab-17-0-2-released/#redos-in-asana-integration-issue-mapping-when-webhook-is-called
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/443577
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2376482
• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/06/12/patch-release-gitlab-17-0-2-released/#redos-in-asana-integration-issue-mapping-when-webhook-is-called
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/443577
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2376482

Get alerted when CVE-2024-1963 or the next vulnerability affects your stack