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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2024-4025 EUVD-2024-32591GHSA-6w53-65xx-mgj9

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

Published Jun 20, 2025 · Updated Jun 23, 2025 · Assigned by GitLab

Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 7.10 prior before 16.11.5, version 17.0 before 17.0.3, and 17.1 before 17.1.1. It is possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service using a crafted markdown page.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
GitLab GitLab 7.10 – < 16.11.5, 17.0 – < 17.0.3, 17.1 – < 17.1.1 16.11.5

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS gitlab No fix yet —

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