CVE-2024-2878
It was possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service by crafting unusual search terms for branch names.
Does this matter?
EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 19.7%, higher than 97% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.7 prior to 16.9.7, starting from 16.10 prior to 16.10.5, and starting from 16.11 prior to 16.11.2. It was possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service by crafting unusual search terms for branch names.
- CVSS 3.1
- 7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 19.73% probability · 97th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-770
- Affected
- gitlab/gitlab
- Source
- cve@gitlab.com
EPSS 19.7% since 3 November 2026; no change recorded yet. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/451918Broken Link
- https://hackerone.com/reports/2416356Permissions Required
- https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/05/08/patch-release-gitlab-16-11-2-released/Release Notes
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.