GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.11 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service condition due to improper input validation on webhook custom header names under certain conditions.
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Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.7.6, 18.8.6, 18.9.2 or above.


Workaround

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History

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:15:00 +0000

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Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.11 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service condition due to improper input validation on webhook custom header names under certain conditions.
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
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'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-11T16:05:45.741Z

Reserved: 2025-11-25T20:33:21.978Z

Link: CVE-2025-13690

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-11T16:16:18.877

Modified: 2026-03-11T16:16:18.877

Link: CVE-2025-13690

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses