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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

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.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-9367
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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6 Nov 2026, 09:26 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 12 Dec 2024, 12:02 UTC

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.

osv:CVE-2024-9367
Complete source record
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    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2024-9367",
    "products": [],
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