🛡️ CVE-2024-4278 — gitlab

🟢 CVSS 2.0 — Low ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-821 OSV
2.0
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Incorrect Synchronization in GitLab

An information disclosure issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 16.5 prior to 17.2.8, from 17.3 prior to 17.3.4, and from 17.4 prior to 17.4.1. A maintainer could obtain a Dependency Proxy password by editing a certain Dependency Proxy setting.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality low, integrity low, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-4278 is classified as CWE-821: Incorrect Synchronization. The product utilizes a shared resource in a concurrent manner, but it does not correctly synchronize access to the resource.

Affected software

CVE-2024-4278 is recorded against 1 package.

  • gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 27 September 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

gitlab.com (Web)
hackerone.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

Details

Severity LOW
CVSS Score 2.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
CWE CWE-821
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source OSV
Published 2024-09-27
Updated 2026-08-12
Modified 2026-06-17
Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
gitlab — —

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