A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 16.11.4/17.0.2/17.1.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component OpenAPI File Handler. The manipulation leads to resource consumption.

This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-1816. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.