Description
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.9 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition by submitting specially crafted markdown content with nested formatting patterns.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- low
- Weaknesses
- CWE-789
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- GITLAB
- Published
- 11/15/2025
- Last Modified
- 11/19/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
gitlab : gitlabgitlab : gitlabgitlab : gitlabgitlab : gitlabgitlab : gitlabgitlab : gitlab
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