CVE-2025-11974

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Oct 27, 2025
Updated: Oct 28, 2025
Reserved: Oct 20, 2025

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.7 before 18.3.5, 18.4 before 18.4.3, and 18.5 before 18.5.1 that could have allowed an unauthenticated attacker to create a denial of service condition by uploading large files to specific API endpoints.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	11.7 to before 18.3.5Affected 18.4 to before 18.4.3Affected 18.5 to before 18.5.1Affected

References

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/10/22/patch-release-gitlab-18-5-1-released/
GitLab Issue #571761issue-trackingpermissions-required

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