CVE-2025-14513 (GCVE-0-2025-14513)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-03-11 16:05 – Updated: 2026-03-11 19:32
VLAI?
Title
Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.11 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service condition due to improper input validation when processing specially crafted JSON payloads in the protected branches API.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1284 - Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 16.11 , < 18.7.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.8 , < 18.8.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.9 , < 18.9.2 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [a92847865](https://hackerone.com/a92847865) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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