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Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

Type: advisorySources: OSV

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.10.8, 18.11 before 18.11.5, and 19.0 before 19.0.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption when processing a specially crafted file upload.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2026-1500
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
8 Nov 2026, 01:26 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

core-osv · Original source

Published 11 Jun 2026, 10:21 UTC

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.10.8, 18.11 before 18.11.5, and 19.0 before 19.0.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption when processing a specially crafted file upload.

osv:CVE-2026-1500
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2026-1500",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab",
    "summary": "GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 17.10 before 18.10.8, 18.11 before 18.11.5, and 19.0 before 19.0.2 that under certain conditions could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service due to uncontrolled resource consumption when processing a specially crafted file upload.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2026-1500",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2026-1500",
        "CVE-2026-1500"
      ],
      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:31:06.630654918Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/06/10/patch-release-gitlab-19-0-2-released/",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/587825",
        "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/1xxx/CVE-2026-1500.json",
        "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-1500",
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/3517331"
      ],
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        "cna_assigner": "GitLab",
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                ],
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      }
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 521334,
  "published_at": "2026-06-11T10:21:51.428+00:00"
}