CVE-2026-1456CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Medium · published February 11, 2026

CVSS v3.1
6.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
35.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 18.7 before 18.7.4, and 18.8 before 18.8.4 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause denial of service through CPU exhaustion by submitting specially crafted markdown files that trigger exponential processing in markdown preview.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
6.5 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00423 · 35.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-770 · Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Published
2026-02-11T11:04Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 11 FEB 11:04Z
    Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
    cvelistv5