GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.3 before 18.6.4, 18.7 before 18.7.2, and 18.8 before 18.8.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create a denial of service condition by sending repeated malformed SSH authentication requests.
Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.6.4, 18.7.2, 18.8.2 or above.


Workaround

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History

Thu, 22 Jan 2026 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.3 before 18.6.4, 18.7 before 18.7.2, and 18.8 before 18.8.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to create a denial of service condition by sending repeated malformed SSH authentication requests.
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': 5.3, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-01-22T15:29:45.284Z

Reserved: 2026-01-16T23:03:42.361Z

Link: CVE-2026-1102

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-01-22T15:16:50.227

Modified: 2026-01-22T15:16:50.227

Link: CVE-2026-1102

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses