CVE-2025-3922 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab

What is CVE-2025-3922?

CVE-2025-3922 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 22 Apr 2026. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.4 before 18.9.6, 18.10 before 18.10.4, and 18.11 before 18.11.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service by overwhelming system resources under certain conditions due to insufficient resource allocation limits in the GraphQL API.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-3922?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including gitlab. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2025-3922?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 18.9.6, 18.10.4 or 18.11.1.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2025-3922 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2025-3922 exists.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-gitlab-2025-3922, GHSA-q9qr-p283-j9rm, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-3922.