# CVE-2025-1250: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

> CVE-2025-1250: Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab. CVSS 6.5 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-1250
Last updated: 2026-10-19T17:10:00Z

- Published: 2025-09-12 06:06 UTC · Updated: 2026-10-19 17:10 UTC · Assigner: GitLab
- CVSS: 6.5 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS: 0.49%, 42th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-770

## Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.0 before 18.1.6, 18.2 before 18.2.6, and 18.3 before 18.3.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to stall background job processing by sending specially crafted commit messages, merge request descriptions, or notes.

## Affected vendors and products

- GitLab: GitLab

## Tracked companies

- [GitLab](https://rewindex.com/company/gitlab.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1250)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1250)
- [https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/09/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-3-2-released/](https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/09/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-3-2-released/)
- [https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/519335](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/519335)
- [https://hackerone.com/reports/2903896](https://hackerone.com/reports/2903896)

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_Sources: CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (https://www.cve.org/) This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (https://nvd.nist.gov/) Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog) EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (https://www.first.org/epss/)_


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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-1250 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-1250.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-1250 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:14:52.471Z