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Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions of GitLab CE/EE 16.9 prior to 16.9.6, 16.10 prior to 16.10.4, and 16.11 prior to 16.11.1 where path traversal could lead to DoS and restricted file read.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-03-13 | Published 2024-04-25 | Updated 2025-11-19 | Assigner GitLab




HIGH: 8.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H

Problem types

CWE-22: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Product status

Default status
unaffected

16.9 (semver) before 16.9.6
affected

16.10 (semver) before 16.10.4
affected

16.11 (semver) before 16.11.1
affected

Credits

Thanks [pwnie](https://hackerone.com/pwnie) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/450303 (GitLab Issue #450303) issue-tracking

hackerone.com/reports/2401952 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2401952) technical-description exploit

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/450303 (GitLab Issue #450303) issue-tracking

hackerone.com/reports/2401952 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2401952) technical-description exploit

cve.org (CVE-2024-2434)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-2434)

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