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Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 7.10 prior before 16.11.5, version 17.0 before 17.0.3, and 17.1 before 17.1.1. It is possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service using a crafted markdown page.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-04-22 | Published 2025-06-20 | Updated 2025-06-23 | Assigner GitLab




MEDIUM: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Product status

Default status
unaffected

7.10 (semver) before 16.11.5
affected

17.0 (semver) before 17.0.3
affected

17.1 (semver) before 17.1.1
affected

Credits

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

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/457474 (GitLab Issue #457474) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/2024974 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2024974) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2024-4025)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-4025)

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