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CVE-2026-77801 (GCVE-0-2026-77801)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-26 13:35 – Updated: 2026-08-26 15:55
VLAI
Title
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.8 before 19.1.7, 19.2 before 19.2.5, and 19.3 before 19.3.1 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service affecting background job processing, due to missing object count limits.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-08-26 15:55 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-770 - Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: 12.8 , < 19.1.7 (semver)
Affected: 19.2 , < 19.2.5 (semver)
Affected: 19.3 , < 19.3.1 (semver)
    cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
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Credits
Thanks Tran Ba Quang for reporting this vulnerability
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