CVE-2025-14870

high

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.5 before 18.9.7, 18.10 before 18.10.6, and 18.11 before 18.11.3 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service by sending specially crafted JSON payloads due to insufficient input validation.

References

https://hackerone.com/reports/3446641

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/584490

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/05/13/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-3-released/

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-05-14

Updated: 2026-05-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: High