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
0.41% (35th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CHAINGUARDLATEST-GITLABWORKHORSECEFIPS181-15130832
  • published28 Jan 2026
  • disclosed26 Nov 2025

Introduced: 26 Nov 2025

CVE-2025-7449  (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.

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 8.3 before 18.4.5, 18.5 before 18.5.3, and 18.6 before 18.6.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user with specific permissions to cause a denial of service condition through HTTP response processing.