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CVE-2024-2829: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

7.5 CVSS

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.5 before 16.9.6, all versions starting from 16.10 before 16.10.4, all versions starting from 16.11 before 16.11.1. A crafted wildcard filter in FileFinder may lead to a denial of service.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-2829

CVSS Base Severity: HIGH

CVSS Base Score: 7.5

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem Types

CWE-1333: Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

Affected Products

Vendor: GitLab

Product: GitLab

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 2.67% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 85.1% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-15 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: none

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: false

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-2829
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/451456
https://hackerone.com/reports/2416728

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