CVE-2026-1102

MEDIUM severity · CVSS 5.3 · Resource exhaustion

5.3CVSS MEDIUM

Summary

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.3 before 18.6.4, 18.7 before 18.7.2, and 18.8 before 18.8.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create a denial of service condition by sending repeated malformed SSH authentication requests.

Impact & exploitability

Attack vectorNetwork

Attack complexityLow

Privileges requiredNone

User interactionNone

Confidentiality impactNone

Integrity impactNone

Availability impactLow

Exploit probability (EPSS)0%

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

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/2026/01/21/patch-release-gitlab-18-8-2-released/Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/579746