Description
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.
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Attack Vector
- network
- Complexity
- low
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- none
- Scope
- unchanged
- Confidentiality
- none
- Integrity
- none
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-770
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- GITLAB
- Published
- 2/11/2026
- Last Modified
- 2/12/2026
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
gitlab : gitlabgitlab : gitlabgitlab : gitlabgitlab : gitlab
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