CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2024-1947

Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

Published: May 23, 2024 | Modified: Dec 13, 2024
CVSS 3.x
6.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM

A denial of service (DoS) condition was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.2.4 before 16.10.6, 16.11 before 16.11.3, and 17.0 before 17.0.1. By leveraging this vulnerability an attacker could create a DoS condition by sending crafted API calls.

Weakness

The product does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Gitlab Gitlab 13.2.4 (including) 16.10.6 (excluding)
Gitlab Gitlab 16.11.0 (including) 16.11.3 (excluding)
Gitlab Gitlab 17.0.0 (including) 17.0.0 (including)
Gitlab Ubuntu esm-apps/xenial *

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