CVE-2024-8233

Summary

CVE-2024-8233 is a recently identified vulnerability affecting GitLab CE and EE versions 9.4 to 17.6.2, including 17.5 before 17.5.4 and 17.6 before 17.6.6. This issue enables an attacker to trigger a denial of service by sending malicious requests for diff files related to commits or merge requests. The vulnerability can cause GitLab to consume significant system resources, ultimately leading to an unresponsive state. Users are encouraged to update their GitLab instances to the latest protected versions as soon as possible to mitigate this risk.

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