CVE-2026-1168

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.4.6 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service due to improper resource allocation limits in the GraphQL complexity calculation logic.

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

0.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 41st percentile

Published

2026-09-16

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3461590

Security advisories

• https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry