CVE-2026-77801 PUBLISHED

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Assigner: GitLab
Reserved: 21.08.2026 Published: 26.08.2026 Updated: 26.08.2026

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.8 before 19.1.7, 19.2 before 19.2.5, and 19.3 before 19.3.1 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service affecting background job processing, due to missing object count limits.

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 12.8 to 19.1.7 (excl.) affected from 19.2 to 19.2.5 (excl.) affected from 19.3 to 19.3.1 (excl.)

Solutions

Upgrade to versions 19.1.7, 19.2.5, 19.3.1 or above.

Credits

Thanks Tran Ba Quang for reporting this vulnerability finder

References

Problem Types

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