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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.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2024-09-30 | Published 2024-12-12 | Updated 2024-12-12 | Assigner GitLab




MEDIUM: 4.3CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

Default status
unaffected

13.9 (semver) before 17.4.6
affected

17.5 (semver) before 17.5.4
affected

17.6 (semver) before 17.6.2
affected

Credits

Thanks [l33thaxor](https://hackerone.com/l33thaxor) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/496631 (GitLab Issue #496631) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/2735311 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2735311) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2024-9367)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2024-9367)

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