CVE-2025-12983: low-severity vulnerability in GitLab
Memory Allocation with Excessive Size Value in GitLab
Published · Updated
8Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 3.5epss 0.4%
exploitation probability
0.4%top 66% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.9 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition by submitting specially crafted markdown content with nested formatting patterns.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:L
Affected products
GitLab · GitLabRelated CVEs — GitLab
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