What is CVE-2024-6826?

CVE-2024-6826 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-10-24.

How severe is CVE-2024-6826?

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

Resource exhaustion in GitLab

CVE-2024-6826

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.2 before 17.3.6, 17.4 before 17.4.3, and 17.5 before 17.5.1. A denial of service could occur via importing a malicious crafted XML manifest file.

Published 2024-10-24 · 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: 0.005 (42.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 42nd percentile — 42.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.005 · newest: 0.005 · change: -0.000

Affected products

GitLab — versions 17.5, 17.5.0, 11.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/472928 (issue-tracking, Exploit, permissions-required, Issue Tracking)
hackerone.com/reports/2571364 (Permissions Required, technical-description, permissions-required, exploit)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-6826?: CVE-2024-6826 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2024-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2024-6826?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.