CVE-2026-1458

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 8.0 before 18.6.6, 18.7 before 18.7.4, and 18.8 before 18.8.4 that, under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service by uploading malicious files.

Affected

GitLab

CVSS v3.1 NVD

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

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

0.42% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 35th percentile

Published

2026-02-11

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3517644

Security advisories

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/02/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-8-4-released
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/587698

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry