Cyber Resilience

CVE-2024-8233

HighPublic PoCDDoS

Published: 12 December 2024

Published
12 December 2024
Modified
11 July 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS Score 0.0120 79.3th percentile
Risk Priority 16 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2024-8233 is a high-severity Inefficient Algorithmic Complexity (CWE-407) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 7.5 (High).

Operationally, ranked in the top 20.7% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.4 before 17.4.6, 17.5 before 17.5.4, and 17.6 before 17.6.2. An attacker could cause a denial of service with requests for diff files on a commit or merge…

more

request.

CWE(s)
CWE-407

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
9.4.0 — 17.4.6 · 9.4.0 — 17.4.6 · 17.5.0 — 17.5.4

Mitigating Controls

Likely Mitigating Controls AI

Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.

SC-5 Denial-of-service Protection
addresses: CWE-407

Addresses inefficient algorithms whose complexity can be exploited for DoS.

References