CVE-2024-7610
Description
A Denial of Service (DoS) condition has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting with 15.9 before 17.0.6, 17.1 prior to 17.1.4, and 17.2 prior to 17.2.2. It is possible for an attacker to cause catastrophic backtracking while parsing results from Elasticsearch.
Summary dbcve.org
A Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) vulnerability exists in GitLab CE/EE where parsing Elasticsearch results can trigger catastrophic backtracking. An attacker can craft malicious Elasticsearch query results that cause the regex engine to consume excessive CPU resources, leading to DoS.
Mitigation
Upgrade GitLab to version 17.0.6, 17.1.4, or 17.2.2 or later. If immediate upgrade is not possible, consider temporarily disabling Elasticsearch integration or implementing rate limiting on Elasticsearch query endpoints.