What is CVE-2024-1066?

CVE-2024-1066 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-02-07.

How severe is CVE-2024-1066?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-1066 known to be exploited?

1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Resource exhaustion in GitLab

CVE-2024-1066

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 13.3.0 prior to 16.6.7, 16.7 prior to 16.7.5, and 16.8 prior to 16.8.2 which allows an attacker to do a resource exhaustion using GraphQL `vulnerabilitiesCountByDay`

Published 2024-02-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.006 (48.2th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 48th percentile — 48.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.006 · newest: 0.006 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GitLab — versions 13.3.3, 16.7, 16.8

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Public proof-of-concept exploits

NaInSec/CVE-LIST

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/420341 (issue-tracking, permissions-required, Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-1066?: CVE-2024-1066 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-02-07.
How severe is CVE-2024-1066?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-1066 known to be exploited?: 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.