CVE-2024-8973: GitLab

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.1 prior to 17.9.8, from 17.10 prior to 17.10.6, and from 17.11 prior to 17.11.2. It was possible to cause a DoS condition via GitHub import requests using a malicious crafted payload.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 17.1.0, before 17.9.8 (fixed in 17.9.8); from 17.10.0, before 17.10.6 (fixed in 17.10.6); from 17.11.0, before 17.11.2 (fixed in 17.11.2)

Published 2025-05-09. Last modified 2026-06-17.