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.
Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.1.6, 18.2.6, 18.3.2 or above.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Fri, 12 Sep 2025 06:15:00 +0000

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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.
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
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2025-09-12T06:06:14.804Z

Reserved: 2025-02-12T15:01:57.255Z

Link: CVE-2025-1250

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-09-12T06:15:42.080

Modified: 2025-09-12T06:15:42.080

Link: CVE-2025-1250

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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