CVE-2025-12983 (GCVE-0-2025-12983)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-11-15 08:13
Modified
2025-11-17 20:17
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
CWE
- CWE-789 - Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.9 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition by submitting specially crafted markdown content with nested formatting patterns.
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Impacted products
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