CVE-2024-8041 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in GitLab

What is CVE-2024-8041?

CVE-2024-8041 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 22 Aug 2024. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A Denial of Service (DoS) issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions prior to 17.1.6, 17.2 prior to 17.2.4, and 17.3 prior to 17.3.1. A denial of service could occur upon importing a maliciously crafted repository using the GitHub importer.

Weakness: CWE-400

Which versions are affected by CVE-2024-8041?

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

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2024-8041?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 17.1.6, 17.2.4 or 17.3.1.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2024-8041 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2024-8041 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• 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-2024-8041, GHSA-qvhh-qrj8-5g7c, UBUNTU-CVE-2024-8041.