GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.9 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition by submitting specially crafted markdown content with nested formatting patterns.
Advisories

No advisories yet.

Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.3.6, 18.4.4, 18.5.2 or above.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:30:00 +0000

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Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.9 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition by submitting specially crafted markdown content with nested formatting patterns.
Title Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-789
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 3.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2025-11-15T08:13:32.098Z

Reserved: 2025-11-10T20:34:10.628Z

Link: CVE-2025-12983

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-11-15T09:15:41.950

Modified: 2025-11-15T09:15:41.950

Link: CVE-2025-12983

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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