CVE-2025-12562

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · Resource exhaustion

7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.10 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create a denial of service condition by sending crafted GraphQL queries that bypass query complexity limits.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactNone

Integrity impactNone

Availability impactHigh

Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

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

Affected products we track (1)

GitLab

Recommendation

Apply the vendor fix promptly. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.

Additional information

NVD record
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/12/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-2-released/Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/579152
https://hackerone.com/reports/3360710