CVE-2025-11042 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.2 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1, that allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled CPU consumption, potentially leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition while using specific GraphQL queries.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00031.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

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Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.2.7, 18.3.3, 18.4.1 or above.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/550374

History

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 13:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		An issue was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 17.2 before 18.2.7, 18.3 before 18.3.3, and 18.4 before 18.4.1, that allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled CPU consumption, potentially leading to a Denial of Service (DoS) condition while using specific GraphQL queries.
Title		Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
First Time appeared		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses		CWE-770
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
References		https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/550374
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 4.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2025-09-26T09:18:31.712Z

Updated: 2025-09-26T13:10:33.841Z

Reserved: 2025-09-26T09:10:59.696Z

Link: CVE-2025-11042

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-09-26T13:10:25.830Z

NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2025-09-26T10:15:47.003

Modified: 2025-09-26T14:32:19.853

Link: CVE-2025-11042

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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