CVE-2026-1168

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Sep 16, 2026
Updated: Sep 16, 2026
Reserved: Jan 19, 2026

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.4.6 before 19.1.8, 19.2 before 19.2.6, and 19.3 before 19.3.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service due to improper resource allocation limits in the GraphQL complexity calculation logic.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/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	18.4.6 to before 19.1.8Affected 19.2 to before 19.2.6Affected 19.3 to before 19.3.2Affected

References

HackerOne Bug Bounty Report #3461590technical-descriptionexploitpermissions-required
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/586586
https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-2-released/

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