CVE-2025-4225

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 5.3 Medium
Published: Aug 27, 2025
Updated: Aug 27, 2025
Reserved: May 2, 2025

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	5.3 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L	GitLab

Weaknesses

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GitLabGitLab	14.1 to before 18.1.5Affected 18.2 to before 18.2.5Affected 18.3 to before 18.3.1Affected

References

GitLab Issue #538983issue-trackingpermissions-required
HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3100624technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required

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