CVE-2025-4225 | THREATINT

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 14.1 before 18.1.5, 18.2 before 18.2.5, and 18.3 before 18.3.1 that that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition affecting all users by sending specially crafted GraphQL requests.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-05-02 | Published 2025-08-27 | Updated 2025-08-27 | Assigner GitLab

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

Problem types

CWE-770: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

Default status

unaffected

14.1 before 18.1.5

affected

18.2 before 18.2.5

affected

18.3 before 18.3.1

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/538983 (GitLab Issue #538983) issue-tracking permissions-required

hackerone.com/reports/3100624 (HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3100624) technical-description exploit permissions-required

cve.org (CVE-2025-4225)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-4225)

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