CVE-2025-5996

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-5996
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-5996.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2025-5996
Aliases
Downstream
Published
2025-06-12T10:02:15.206Z
Modified
2026-08-23T06:39:13.720046769Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
Details

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.

Database specific
{
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2025/5xxx/CVE-2025-5996.json",
    "cna_assigner": "GitLab",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-770"
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab
Events
Database specific
Show details
{
    "source": "CPE_RANGE",
    "cpe": [
        "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
        "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.1.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "17.10.8"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "17.11.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "17.11.4"
        },
        {
            "introduced": "18.0.0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "18.0.2"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v17.*
v17.11.0-ee
v18.*
v18.0.0-ee

Database specific

source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2025-5996.json"