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Fencer Vulns
high 7.5

CVE-2024-2829 in the critical feed json

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

published 2024-04-25 2 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-gitlab-2024-2829 , EUVD-2024-27773

cvss
7.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
26.0%
EPSS 26.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.5 before 16.9.6, all versions starting from 16.10 before 16.10.4, all versions starting from 16.11 before 16.11.1. A crafted wildcard filter in FileFinder may lead to a denial of service.

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-2024-2829 updated cvss 7.5

gitlab: crafted wildcard filter in FileFinder may lead to a denial of service

  • 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

25.96% 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/2416728 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami gitlab
>=12.5.0, <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-1333 Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
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.