{"id":"CVE-2024-2878","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2024-2878","generatedAt":"2026-11-04T20:45:36.081Z","title":"It was possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service by crafting unusual search terms for branch names.","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.","published":"2025-02-05T13:15:23.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T07:25:44.000Z","status":"Analyzed","sourceIdentifier":"cve@gitlab.com","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":7.5,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-770"],"affected":["gitlab/gitlab"],"epss":{"score":0.19726,"percentile":0.97405,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"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."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/451918","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@gitlab.com"},{"url":"https://hackerone.com/reports/2416356","tags":["Permissions Required"],"source":"cve@gitlab.com"},{"url":"https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/05/08/patch-release-gitlab-16-11-2-released/","tags":["Release Notes"],"source":"134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2878","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}