What is CVE-2024-8186?

CVE-2024-8186 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-03-03.

How severe is CVE-2024-8186?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.

XSS in Gitlab

CVE-2024-8186

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.6 before 17.7.6, 17.8 before 17.8.4, and 17.9 before 17.9.1. An attacker could inject HMTL into the child item search potentially leading to XSS in certain situations.

Vulnerability class: XSS (Cross-Site Scripting)

EPSS: 0.003 (25.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.4 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N.

Affected products

Gitlab — versions 17.8, 17.9.0, 17.9

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-79 — Cross-site Scripting

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-2024-8186?: CVE-2024-8186 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Cross-site Scripting. CVSS score: 5.4/10. Published 2025-03-03.
How severe is CVE-2024-8186?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.4 out of 10.