CVE-2025-14870

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.5 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service by sending specially crafted JSON payloads due to insufficient input validation.

Affected

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 GITLAB

7.5 HIGHCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.34% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 26th percentile

Published

2026-05-14

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3446641

Security advisories

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/05/13/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-3-released

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry