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Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

CVE-2024-1947

Medium
4.3/10

Summary

A denial of service (DoS) condition was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.2.4 before 16.10.6, 16.11 before 16.11.3, and 17.0 before 17.0.1. By leveraging this vulnerability an attacker could create a DoS condition by sending crafted API calls.

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  • NETWORK
  • NONE
  • UNCHANGED
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CWE-409 - Improper Handling of Highly Compressed Data (Data Amplification)

The software does not handle or incorrectly handles a compressed input with a very high compression ratio that produces a large output.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published