CVE-2025-13690

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.11 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service condition due to improper input validation on webhook custom header names under certain conditions.

CVSS v3 6.5 MEDIUM

6.5^/10

CVSS v3 : MEDIUM

Vector :

Exploitability : 2.8 / Impact : 3.6

Attack Vector NETWORK

Attack Complexity LOW

Privileges Required LOW

User Interaction NONE

Confidentiality Impact NONE

Integrity Impact NONE

Availability Impact HIGH

Scope UNCHANGED

References

Link	Resource
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/03/11/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-2-released/	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/582096	Broken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/3415683	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

13 Mar 2026, 12:32

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
References	~~() https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/03/11/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-2-released/ -~~	() https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/03/11/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-2-released/ - Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
References	~~() https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/582096 -~~	() https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/582096 - Broken Link
References	~~() https://hackerone.com/reports/3415683 -~~	() https://hackerone.com/reports/3415683 - Permissions Required
CPE		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::* cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
First Time		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab

11 Mar 2026, 16:16

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
New CVE

Information

Published : 2026-03-11 16:16

Updated : 2026-03-13 12:32

NVD link : CVE-2025-13690

Mitre link : CVE-2025-13690

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-13690

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gitlab

gitlab

CWE

CWE-770

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

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