CVE-2025-3525

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.0 before 18.7.5, 18.8 before 18.8.5, and 18.9 before 18.9.1 that could have, under certain circumstances, allowed an authenticated user with certain access to cause Denial of Service by creating specially crafted CI triggers via the API.

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

0.32% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 24th percentile

Published

2026-02-25

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3045257

Security advisories

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/02/25/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-1-released

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry