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FKIE_CVE-2026-2845

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2026-02-25 21:16 - Updated: 2026-06-17 10:31
Severity
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.2 before 18.7.5, 18.8 before 18.8.5, and 18.9 before 18.9.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service by exploiting a Bitbucket Server import endpoint via repeatedly sending large responses.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://about.gitlab.com/releases/2026/02/25/patch-release-gitlab-18-9-1-released/Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/570554Broken Link
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab *
gitlab gitlab 18.9.0
gitlab gitlab 18.9.0
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