CVE-2024-2434 (GCVE-0-2024-2434)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-04-25 11:02 – Updated: 2025-11-20 04:12
VLAI?
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions of GitLab CE/EE 16.9 prior to 16.9.6, 16.10 prior to 16.10.4, and 16.11 prior to 16.11.1 where path traversal could lead to DoS and restricted file read.
Severity ?
8.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')
Assigner
References
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/450303 issue-tracking
https://hackerone.com/reports/2401952 technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.9 , < 16.9.6 (semver)
Affected: 16.10 , < 16.10.4 (semver)
Affected: 16.11 , < 16.11.1 (semver)
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Credits
Thanks [pwnie](https://hackerone.com/pwnie) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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