CVE-2025-0186 (GCVE-0-2025-0186)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-04-22 16:05 – Updated: 2026-04-22 17:25
VLAI
Title
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 10.6 before 18.9.6, 18.10 before 18.10.4, and 18.11 before 18.11.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service under certain conditions by exhausting server resources by making crafted requests to a discussions endpoint.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 10.6 , < 18.9.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.10 , < 18.10.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.11 , < 18.11.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [pwnie](https://hackerone.com/pwnie) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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