A vulnerability, which was classified as problematic, has been found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 16.10.5/16.11.2/17.0.0. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Description Handler. The manipulation leads to resource consumption.
This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2024-2874. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available.
It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.