An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.2 before 18.7.5, 18.8 before 18.8.5, and 18.9 before 18.9.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service by exploiting a Bitbucket Server import endpoint via repeatedly sending large responses.
Advisories

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Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.7.5, 18.8.5, 18.9.1 or above.


Workaround

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History

Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Description An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 11.2 before 18.7.5, 18.8 before 18.8.5, and 18.9 before 18.9.1 that could have allowed an authenticated user to cause denial of service by exploiting a Bitbucket Server import endpoint via repeatedly sending large responses.
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': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-25T20:04:35.210Z

Reserved: 2026-02-20T06:04:23.184Z

Link: CVE-2026-2845

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-25T21:16:44.547

Modified: 2026-02-25T21:16:44.547

Link: CVE-2026-2845

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses