CVE-2025-14513

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 unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service condition due to improper input validation when processing specially crafted JSON payloads in the protected branches API.

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/2026/03/11/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-2-released/	Release Notes Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/583718	Broken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/3452477	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, 12:34

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/583718 -~~	() https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/583718 - Broken Link
References	~~() https://hackerone.com/reports/3452477 -~~	() https://hackerone.com/reports/3452477 - 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 12:34

NVD link : CVE-2025-14513

Mitre link : CVE-2025-14513

CVE.ORG link : CVE-2025-14513

JSON object : View

Products Affected

gitlab

gitlab

CWE

CWE-1284

Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input

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