CVE-2025-5996 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in Gitlab

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or ThrottlingCWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer6 documents6 sources
Severity
6.5MEDIUMNVD
EPSS
0.5%
top 34.86%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
24
GitlabDebian GitlabGitlab CE+21 more
Timeline
PublishedJun 12

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 2.1.0 before 17.10.8, 17.11 before 17.11.4, and 18.0 before 18.0.2. A lack of input validation in HTTP responses could allow an authenticated user to cause denial of service.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 2.8 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages26 packages

▶CVEListV5gitlab/gitlab2.10 — 17.10.7+2
▶NVDgitlab/gitlab2.1.0 — 17.10.8+2
▶debiandebian/gitlab
▶gitlabgitlab/gitlab

🔴Vulnerability Details

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GHSA
GHSA-wjh7-hp74-8r7h: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 2↗2025-06-12
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OSV
CVE-2025-5996: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 2↗2025-06-12
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📋Vendor Advisories

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GitLab
CVE-2025-5996: An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 2.1.0 before 17.10.8, 17.11 before 17.11.4, and 18.0 before 18.0.2. A lack of↗2025-06-12
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Debian
CVE-2025-5996: gitlab - An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 2.1.0 b...↗2025
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Microsoft
Insufficient exception handling in the method NCompress::NRar3::CDecoder::Code of 7-Zip before 18.00 and p7zip can lead to multiple memory corruptions within the PPMd code allows remote attackers to c↗2018-01-09
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