CVE-2024-8973

Publication date 9 May 2025

Last updated 30 May 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.1 prior to 17.9.8, from 17.10 prior to 17.10.6, and from 17.11 prior to 17.11.2. It was possible to cause a DoS condition via GitHub import requests using a malicious crafted payload.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
gitlab 25.04 plucky Not in release
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 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required Low
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H