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CVE-2025-1072: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2025-02-07 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

A Denial of Service (DoS) issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 7.14.1 prior to 17.3.7, 17.4 prior to 17.4.4, and 17.5 prior to 17.5.2. A denial of service could occur upon importing maliciously crafted content using the Fogbugz importer.

Affected products

• GitLab: from 7.14.1 before 17.3.7; from 17.4.0 before 17.4.4; from 17.5.0 before 17.5.2; from 17.7.0 before 17.7.3 — fixed in 17.3.7, 17.4.4, 17.5.2, 17.7.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 17.3.7, 17.4.4, 17.5.2, 17.7.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2024/11/13/patch-release-gitlab-17-5-2-released/#denial-of-service-by-importing-malicious-crafted-fogbugz-import-payload
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/463093
• https://hackerone.com/reports/2504059

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