An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 7.12 before 18.1.6, 18.2 before 18.2.6, and 18.3 before 18.3.2 that could have allowed unauthorized users to render the GitLab instance unresponsive to legitimate users by sending multiple concurrent large SAML responses.
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 7.12 before 18.1.6, 18.2 before 18.2.6, and 18.3 before 18.3.2 that could have allowed unauthorized users to render the GitLab instance unresponsive to legitimate users by sending multiple concurrent large SAML responses.
Title Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-1284
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2025-09-12T06:06:04.796Z

Reserved: 2025-03-12T15:05:04.877Z

Link: CVE-2025-2256

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-09-12T06:15:42.340

Modified: 2025-09-12T06:15:42.340

Link: CVE-2025-2256

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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