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CVE-2025-11042 (GCVE-0-2025-11042)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-09-26 09:18 – Updated: 2025-09-26 13:10
VLAI
Title
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
Summary
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.
Severity
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-09-26 13:04 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/550374 issue-trackingpermissions-required
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 17.2 , < 18.2.7 (semver)
Affected: 18.3 , < 18.3.3 (semver)
Affected: 18.4 , < 18.4.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
This vulnerability has been discovered internally by GitLab team member [Alisa Frunza](https://gitlab.com/afrnz).
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