What is CVE-2024-4025?

CVE-2024-4025 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-06-20.

How severe is CVE-2024-4025?

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

Vulnerability in Gitlab

CVE-2024-4025

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 7.10 prior before 16.11.5, version 17.0 before 17.0.3, and 17.1 before 17.1.1. It is possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service using a crafted markdown page.

Vulnerability class: ReDoS (Regular Expression Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.005 (37.9th 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-2024-4025?: CVE-2024-4025 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2025-06-20.
How severe is CVE-2024-4025?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.