CVE-2025-1250

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.0 before 18.1.6, 18.2 before 18.2.6, and 18.3 before 18.3.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to stall background job processing by sending specially crafted commit messages, merge request descriptions, or notes.

Affected

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 GITLAB

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

EPSS

0.46% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 39th percentile

Published

2025-09-12

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/2903896

Security advisories

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/09/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-3-2-released

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry