CVE-2026-0958 (GCVE-0-2026-0958)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-11 11:33 – Updated: 2026-02-11 15:19
VLAI?
Title
Interpretation Conflict in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.4 before 18.6.6, 18.7 before 18.7.4, and 18.8 before 18.8.4 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service through memory or CPU exhaustion by bypassing JSON validation middleware limits.
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-436 - Interpretation Conflict
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: 18.4 , < 18.6.6 (semver)
Affected: 18.7 , < 18.7.4 (semver)
Affected: 18.8 , < 18.8.4 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks [elbo7](https://hackerone.com/elbo7) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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