GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.8 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2…
Summary
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.8 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service due to insufficient resource throttling when processing merge request discussions.
What this means
In plain English
GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.8 before 19.0.5, 19.1 before 19.1.3, and 19.2 before 19.2.1 that under certain conditions could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service due to insufficient resource throttling when processing merge request discussions. The official description indicates that exploitation does not require prior authentication. Successful exploitation can interrupt the affected service or exhaust resources, reducing availability until the component recovers.
Vulnerable items
- GitLab — GitLab is a software-development platform that hosts source code and CI/CD workflows.
Recommended action
Primary action: update to a vendor-listed fixed release: 19.0.5, 19.1.3, 19.2.1.
Rewritten locally from the scraped official advisory data above; no generative API is used. The vendor advisory is authoritative.
- before 19.0.5
- before 19.1.3
- before 19.2.1
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
- 19.0.5
- 19.1.3
- 19.2.1
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
Mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release: 19.0.5, 19.1.3, 19.2.1. That is the remediation for this advisory.
The vendor advisory may list additional interim mitigations or workarounds not captured here — review it before change work.
Official advisory · high-confidence parse· fetched 2 hours ago·verify at source
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