CVE-2025-4097 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.10 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service condition by uploading specially crafted images.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable yes

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Gitlab	Gitlab

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References

Link	Providers
https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/12/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-2-released/
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/538192

History

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'yes', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Thu, 11 Dec 2025 04:30:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.10 before 18.4.6, 18.5 before 18.5.4, and 18.6 before 18.6.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service condition by uploading specially crafted images.
Title		Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
First Time appeared		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses		CWE-770
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab::::::::
Vendors & Products		Gitlab Gitlab gitlab
References		https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/12/10/patch-release-gitlab-18-6-2-released/ https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/538192
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2025-12-11T04:05:22.190Z

Updated: 2025-12-11T15:00:16.738Z

Reserved: 2025-04-29T15:30:46.312Z

Link: CVE-2025-4097

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-12-11T15:00:11.796Z

NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2025-12-11T05:16:37.153

Modified: 2025-12-11T05:16:37.153

Link: CVE-2025-4097

Redhat

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