CVE-2025-0993 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

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HIGH

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Published May 22, 2025

7.5

HIGH

CVSS 3.1

EPSS 0.51%

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. This could allow an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition by exhausting server resources.

Affected products

Vendor GitLab Product GitLab Default
unaffected
- Version
  0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <17.10.7
- Version
  17.11
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <17.11.3
- Version
  18.0
  Status
  affected
  Constraints
  <18.0.1

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor

Product

Default status

Versions

GitLab

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
0	affected	<17.10.7
17.11	affected	<17.11.3
18.0	affected	<18.0.1

Remediation

Vendor solution

Upgrade to versions 17.10.7, 17.11.3, 18.0.1 or above.

Weaknesses (1)

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits

References (2)

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/516927
issue-trackingpermissions-requiredBroken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/2967771
technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-requiredPermissions Required

Link	Providers	Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/516927		issue-trackingpermissions-requiredBroken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/2967771		technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-requiredPermissions Required