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Medium · 6.5 CVE-2025-5996 EUVD-2025-18170GHSA-wjh7-hp74-8r7h

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Published Jun 12, 2025 · Updated Aug 1, 2025 · Assigned by GitLab

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 2.1.0 before 17.10.8, 17.11 before 17.11.4, and 18.0 before 18.0.2. A lack of input validation in HTTP responses could allow an authenticated user to cause denial of service.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
GitLab GitLab 2.10 – < 17.10.7, 17.11 – < 17.11.3, 18.0 – < 18.0.1 17.10.7

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS gitlab No fix yet —

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