CVE-2024-3958 Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection') in GitLab

What is CVE-2024-3958?

CVE-2024-3958 is a medium-severity code injection vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 8 Aug 2024. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.0.6, 17.1 prior to 17.1.4, and 17.2 prior to 17.2.2. An issue was found that allows someone to abuse a discrepancy between the Web application display and the git command line interface to social engineer victims into cloning non-trusted code.

Weakness: CWE-94

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-3958?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including gitlab. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2024-3958?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 17.0.6, 17.1.4 or 17.2.2.

Upgrade, and never evaluate templates, expressions or code built from user input. More about Code injection.

Is CVE-2024-3958 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-3958 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-85706 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-7028 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-22205 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-39935 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Exploited Medium 6.8

All Gitlab Gitlab vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-gitlab-2024-3958, GHSA-f8rc-7cqg-v9mm, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-3958.