CVE-2025-2256

HIGH severity · CVSS 7.5 · CWE-1284

7.5CVSS HIGH

Summary

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 7.12 before 18.1.6, 18.2 before 18.2.6, and 18.3 before 18.3.2 that could have allowed unauthorized users to render the GitLab instance unresponsive to legitimate users by sending multiple concurrent large SAML responses.

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/2025/09/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-3-2-released/Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/524633
https://hackerone.com/reports/3019485