CVE-2025-1250

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.5 · Resource exhaustion

6.5CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.0 before 18.1.6, 18.2 before 18.2.6, and 18.3 before 18.3.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to stall background job processing by sending specially crafted commit messages, merge request descriptions, or notes.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredLow

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactNone

Integrity impactNone

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products we track (1)

GitLab

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

NVD record
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/09/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-3-2-released/Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/519335
https://hackerone.com/reports/2903896