CVE-2024-4025

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

A Denial of Service (DoS) condition has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 7.10 prior before 16.11.5, version 17.0 before 17.0.3, and 17.1 before 17.1.1. It is possible for an attacker to cause a denial of service using a crafted markdown page.

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

CVSS v3.1 GITLAB

6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.54% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 44th percentile

Published

2025-06-20

Updated

2025-06-23

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/2024974

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry