SB2024102505 - Multiple vulnerabilities in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE)
Published: October 25, 2024
Breakdown by Severity
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- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Cross-site scripting (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-8312)
The disclosed vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient sanitization of user-supplied data in Global Search. A remote user can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in user's browser in context of vulnerable website.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.
2) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2024-6826)
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to allocation of resources without limits or throttling within XML manifest file import. A remote user can use a specially crafted XML manifest file and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.