CVE-2026-1659

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.0 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 requests due to insufficient input validation.

CVSS v3 7.5 HIGH

7.5^/10

CVSS v3 : HIGH

Vector :

Exploitability : 3.9 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required NONE

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/05/13/patch-release-gitlab-18-11-3-released/	Release Notes
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/588201	Broken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/3519824	Permissions Required

Configurations

Configuration 1 (hide)

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*

History

No history.

Information

Published : 2026-05-14 06:16

Updated : 2026-06-17 10:16

NVD link : CVE-2026-1659

Mitre link : CVE-2026-1659

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2026-1659

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gitlab

gitlab

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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