CVE-2026-1725

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting versions from 18.9 before 18.9.1 that could have under certain conditions, allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service by sending specially crafted requests to a CI jobs API endpoint.

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

5.3 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

EPSS

0.37% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 30th percentile

Published

2026-02-25

Updated

2026-02-26

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• https://hackerone.com/reports/3519773

Security advisories

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

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry