A vulnerability has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 16.11.4/17.0.2/17.1.0 and classified as critical. Affected by this vulnerability is an unknown functionality of the component Dependency File Handler. The manipulation leads to resource consumption.

This vulnerability is known as CVE-2024-1493. The attack can be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.

It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.