CVE-2026-15975: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 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: 2026-07-29 · updated 2026-08-03
Weakness: CWE-770

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.8 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service due to insufficient resource throttling when processing merge request discussions.

Affected products

GitLab: from 11.8.0 before 19.0.5; from 19.1.0 before 19.1.3; 19.2.0 — fixed in 19.0.5, 19.1.3

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 19.0.5, 19.1.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-2-1-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/601420

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