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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2025-5996 json

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

published 2025-06-12 16 mo ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-gitlab-2025-5996 , EUVD-2025-18170

cvss
6.5
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

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami gitlab 17.11.3, 18.0.1
  • GitLab GitLab 17.10.7, 17.11.3, 18.0.1

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
16 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 56% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/476671 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/479167 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/483111 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami gitlab
>=2.10.0, <17.11.3
>=18.0.0, <18.0.1
17.11.3
18.0.1

Affected products

  • GitLab GitLab

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Technology feeds

References

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: Added CPE configurations because not yet analyzed by NVD.