Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.11 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service condition due to improper input validation when processing specially crafted JSON payloads in the protected branches API.
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0004
EPSS Percentile
12.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CISA SSVC
Vulnrichment
Exploitation
poc
Automatable
yes
Technical Impact
partial
Details
CWE
CWE-1284
Status
published
Products (1)
gitlab/gitlab
16.11.0 - 18.7.6 (2 CPE variants)
Published
Mar 11, 2026
Tracked Since
Mar 11, 2026