Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

published 2023-08-02 3 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also BIT-gitlab-2023-4011 , EUVD-2023-53904

cvss: 4.3; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.8%; EPSS 0.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 56%
public exploits: 0; none known

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions from 15.11 prior to 16.2.2 which allows an attacker to spike the resource consumption resulting in DoS.

Patch / fix

fixed in 2

bitnami gitlab 16.2.2
GitLab GitLab 16.2.2

CISA SSVC

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial
Assessed: 2 y ago (2024-08-30)

Exploit prediction

0.78% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	3.1	4.3	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem	package	affected	fixed in
bitnami	gitlab	>=15.11.0, <16.2.2	16.2.2

Affected products

GitLab GitLab

Classification

Weakness

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Technology feeds

GitLab rss critical rss

References

gitlab.com /gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/409367
issue-tracking, permissions-required, broken-link, web
nvd.nist.gov /vuln/detail/CVE-2023-4011
web

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.

CPEs and fixed versions use Anchore's correction of NVD's data: Enhance with deb and rpm package type records.

Summary