What is CVE-2024-1493?

CVE-2024-1493 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-06-27.

How severe is CVE-2024-1493?

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

Vulnerability in Gitlab

CVE-2024-1493

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 9.2 prior to 16.11.5, starting from 17.0 prior to 17.0.3, and starting from 17.1 prior to 17.1.1, with the processing logic for generating link in dependency files can lead to a regular expression DoS attack on the server

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.005 (39.4th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Gitlab — versions 17.0, 17.1.0, 17.1

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-1333 — Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

References

cve@gitlab.com (issue-tracking, permissions-required, Broken Link)
cve@gitlab.com (Permissions Required, technical-description, permissions-required, exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-1493?: CVE-2024-1493 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-06-27.
How severe is CVE-2024-1493?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.