CVE-2025-1250

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Sep 12, 2025
Updated: Sep 12, 2025
Reserved: Feb 12, 2025

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.0 before 18.1.6, 18.2 before 18.2.6, and 18.3 before 18.3.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to stall background job processing by sending specially crafted commit messages, merge request descriptions, or notes.

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	15.0 to before 18.1.6Affected 18.2 to before 18.2.6Affected 18.3 to before 18.3.2Affected

References

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/09/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-3-2-released/
GitLab Issue #519335issue-trackingpermissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #2903896technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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