CVE-2025-2853 | THREATINT

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 17.10.7, 17.11 before 17.11.3, and 18.0 before 18.0.1. A lack of proper validation in GitLab could allow an authenticated user to cause a denial of service condition.

Reserved 2025-03-27 | Published 2025-05-22 | Updated 2025-05-22 | 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

Any version before 17.10.7

affected

17.11 before 17.11.3

affected

18.0 before 18.0.1

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/527218 (GitLab Issue #527218) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3015673 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3015673) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-2853)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-2853)

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