CVE-2025-4225 (GCVE-0-2025-4225)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-08-27 19:33
Modified
2025-08-27 19:52
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 14.1 before 18.1.5, 18.2 before 18.2.5, and 18.3 before 18.3.1 that that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition affecting all users by sending specially crafted GraphQL requests.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/538983Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/3100624Permissions Required
Impacted products
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GitLab GitLab Version: 14.1   ≤
Version: 18.2   ≤
Version: 18.3   ≤
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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