GitLab Community Edition/Enterprise Edition up to 18.10.7/18.11.4/19.0.1 API Request allocation of resources

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 18.10.7/18.11.4/19.0.1. It has been declared as problematic. The affected element is an unknown function of the component API Request Handler. Such manipulation leads to allocation of resources. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-7250. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

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A vulnerability was found in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition up to 18.10.7/18.11.4/19.0.1. It has been rated as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component API Request Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a allocation of resources vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-770. The product allocates a reusable resource or group of resources on behalf of an actor without imposing any restrictions on the size or number of resources that can be allocated, in violation of the intended security policy for that actor. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.10 before 18.10.8, 18.11 before 18.11.5, and 19.0 before 19.0.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service due to improper input validation in the API request parsing middleware.

The weakness was released by svalkanov. The advisory is shared for download at gitlab.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-7250 since 04/27/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1499.

Upgrading to version 18.10.8, 18.11.5 or 19.0.2 eliminates this vulnerability. The upgrade is hosted for download at about.gitlab.com.

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Type

• Bug Tracking Software

Vendor

• GitLab

Name

• Community Edition
• Enterprise Edition

Version

• 18.10.0
• 18.10.1
• 18.10.2
• 18.10.3
• 18.10.4
• 18.10.5
• 18.10.6
• 18.10.7
• 18.11.0
• 18.11.1
• 18.11.2
• 18.11.3
• 18.11.4
• 19.0.0
• 19.0.1

License

• open-source

Website

• Vendor: https://gitlab.com/

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