Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting gitlab-workhorse-ce-fips-18.1 package, versions <18.1.6-r4


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on default assessment until relevant scores are available.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.57% (43rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-GITLABWORKHORSECEFIPS181-15130816
  • published28 Jan 2026
  • disclosed27 Sept 2025

Introduced: 27 Sep 2025

CVE-2025-8014  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Chainguard gitlab-workhorse-ce-fips-18.1 to version 18.1.6-r4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitlab-workhorse-ce-fips-18.1 package and not the gitlab-workhorse-ce-fips-18.1 package as distributed by Chainguard. See How to fix? for Chainguard relevant fixed versions and status.

Denial of Service issue in GraphQL endpoints in Gitlab EE/CE affecting all versions from 11.10 prior to 18.2.7, 18.3 prior to 18.3.3, and 18.4 prior to 18.4.1 allows unauthenticated users to potentially bypass query complexity limits leading to resource exhaustion and service disruption.