Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.2 package, versions <18.2.8-r4


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.05% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-GITLABRAILSCEFIPS182-15134992
  • published29 Jan 2026
  • disclosed11 Dec 2025

Introduced: 11 Dec 2025

CVE-2025-4097  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.2 to version 18.2.8-r4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.2 package and not the gitlab-rails-ce-fips-18.2 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

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.