CVE-2025-5996 PUBLISHED

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Assigner: GitLab
Reserved: 11.06.2025 Published: 12.06.2025 Updated: 01.08.2025

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 6.5

Attack Vector	Network	Scope	Unchanged
Attack Complexity	Low	Confidentiality Impact	None
Privileges Required	Low	Integrity Impact	None
User Interaction	None	Availability Impact	High

CVSS 3.1

Product Status

Vendor	GitLab
Product	GitLab
Versions	Default: unaffected affected from 2.10 to 17.10.7 (excl.) affected from 17.11 to 17.11.3 (excl.) affected from 18.0 to 18.0.1 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to versions 17.10.7, 17.11.3, 18.0.1 or above.

Credits

Thanks [pwnie](https://hackerone.com/pwnie) and [joaxcar](https://hackerone.com/joaxcar) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

Problem Types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling CWE