CVE-2025-6016

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.2 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 due to insufficient resource allocation limits when retrieving notes under certain conditions.

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

0.45% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 38th percentile

Published

2026-04-22

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3160363

Security advisories

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/04/22/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-1-released

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry