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CVE-2025-3922: 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: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-04-22 · updated 2026-10-14
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.4 before 18.9.6, 18.10 before 18.10.4, and 18.11 before 18.11.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service by overwhelming system resources under certain conditions due to insufficient resource allocation limits in the GraphQL API.

Affected products

• GitLab: from 12.4.0 before 18.9.6; from 18.10.0 before 18.10.4; 18.11.0 — fixed in 18.10.4, 18.9.6

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 18.10.4, 18.9.6. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/04/22/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-1-released/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/537422
• https://hackerone.com/reports/3098035

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