CVE-2024-2829

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

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.

Affected

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 NVD

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

25.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 98th percentile

Published

2024-04-25

Updated

2025-11-20

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/2416728

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry