Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.4 before 18.9.6, 18.10 before 18.10.4, and 18.11 before 18.11.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service by overwhelming system resources under certain conditions due to insufficient resource allocation limits in the GraphQL API.
Problem types
CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Product status
12.4 (semver) before 18.9.6
18.10 (semver) before 18.10.4
18.11 (semver) before 18.11.1
Credits
Thanks [pwnie](https://hackerone.com/pwnie) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
References
hackerone.com/reports/3098035 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3098035)
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/537422
about.gitlab.com/...2/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-1-released/