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Fencer Vulns
high 8.5

CVE-2024-2434 in the critical feed json

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in GitLab

published 2024-04-25 2 y ago modified 2026-09-10 59 d ago also BIT-gitlab-2024-2434 , EUVD-2024-27385

cvss
8.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
23.2%
EPSS 23.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

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.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami gitlab 16.9.6, 16.10.4, 16.11.1
  • GitLab GitLab 16.9.6, 16.10.4, 16.11.1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2024-2434 updated cvss 8.5

gitlab: path traversal could lead to DoS and restricted file read

  • Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift4/ose-console
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

23.18% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • hackerone.com https://hackerone.com/reports/2401952 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/450303 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 8.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 8.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 8.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami gitlab
>=16.9.0, <16.9.6
>=16.10.0, <16.10.4
>=16.11.0, <16.11.1
16.9.6
16.10.4
16.11.1

Affected products

  • GitLab GitLab

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.