CVE-2024-8648

Publication date 14 November 2024

Last updated 26 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.1 · Medium

Score breakdown

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16 before 17.3.7, 17.4 before 17.4.4, and 17.5 before 17.5.2. The vulnerability could allow an attacker to inject malicious JavaScript code in Analytics Dashboards through a specially crafted URL.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gitlab 24.10 oracular Not in release
24.04 LTS noble Not in release
22.04 LTS jammy Not in release
20.04 LTS focal Not in release
16.04 LTS xenial Ignored

Notes

mdeslaur

GitLab isn’t maintainable as a distro package, and was removed from Ubuntu because of this. We will not be fixing security issues in the gitlab package in Xenial.

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.1 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction Required
Scope Changed
Confidentiality Low
Integrity impact Low
Availability impact None
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

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