CVE-2026-1388

high

Description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.2 before 18.7.5, 18.8 before 18.8.5, and 18.9 before 18.9.1 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause regular expression denial of service by sending specially crafted input to a merge request endpoint under certain conditions.

References

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/02/25/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-1-released/

https://hackerone.com/reports/3482893

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/587560

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-25

Updated: 2026-02-28

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

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00041