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CVE-2024-9367: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2024-12-12 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.9 before 17.4.6, 17.5 before 17.5.4, and 17.6 before 17.6.2, that allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled CPU consumption, potentially leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition while parsing templates to generate changelogs.

Affected products

• GitLab: from 13.9.0 before 17.4.6; from 17.5.0 before 17.5.4; from 17.6.0 before 17.6.2 — fixed in 17.4.6, 17.5.4, 17.6.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 17.4.6, 17.5.4, 17.6.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/496631
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2735311

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