CVE-2025-2853 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting GitLab CE/EE versions prior to 17.10.7, 17.11.3, and 18.0.1. An authenticated user can exploit a lack of proper validation to trigger the DoS condition. This medium-severity vulnerability (CVSS 6.5) has a low attack complexity and requires user authentication, but no user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or inclusion in CISA's KEV catalog. Community discussion and media coverage are minimal, with only one article from GitLab Security acknowledging the patch release.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 17.10.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
< 17.10.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
>= 17.11.0, < 17.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* | ||
>= 17.11.0, < 17.11.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* | ||
18.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:18.0.0:*:*:*:community:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.