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Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.6 before 18.0.6, 18.1 before 18.1.4, and 18.2 before 18.2.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service condition by creating specially crafted content that consumes excessive server resources when processed.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-03-21 | Published 2025-08-13 | Updated 2025-08-13 | Assigner GitLab




MEDIUM: 6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

Default status
unaffected

11.6 before 18.0.6
affected

18.1 before 18.1.4
affected

18.2 before 18.2.2
affected

Credits

Thanks [pwnie](https://hackerone.com/pwnie) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program finder

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/526349 (GitLab Issue #526349) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3015894 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3015894) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-2614)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-2614)

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