CVE-2025-12562

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.10 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create a denial of service condition by sending crafted GraphQL queries that bypass query complexity limits.

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/2025/12/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-2-released/	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/579152	Broken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/3360710	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

23 Dec 2025, 21:00

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::* cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
First Time		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
References	~~() https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/12/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-2-released/ -~~	() https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/12/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-2-released/ - Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
References	~~() https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/579152 -~~	() https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/579152 - Broken Link
References	~~() https://hackerone.com/reports/3360710 -~~	() https://hackerone.com/reports/3360710 - Permissions Required

11 Dec 2025, 04:15

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2025-12-11 04:15

Updated : 2025-12-23 21:00

NVD link : CVE-2025-12562

Mitre link : CVE-2025-12562

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-12562

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gitlab

gitlab

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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