GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.8 before 19.1.7, 19.2 before 19.2.5, and 19.3 before 19.3.1 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service affecting background job processing, due to missing object count limits.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

No EPSS score available.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions
GitLab GitLab unaffected
Version Status Constraints
12.8 affected < 19.1.7
19.2 affected < 19.2.5
19.3 affected < 19.3.1

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Fixes

Solution

Upgrade to versions 19.1.7, 19.2.5, 19.3.1 or above.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References
Link Providers
https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-1-released/ cve-icon cve-icon
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/597273 cve-icon cve-icon
History

Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.8 before 19.1.7, 19.2 before 19.2.5, and 19.3 before 19.3.1 that, under certain conditions, could have allowed an authenticated user to cause a denial of service affecting background job processing, due to missing object count limits.
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: 2026-08-26T15:55:52.127Z

Reserved: 2026-08-21T13:35:48.906Z

Link: CVE-2026-77801

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-08-26T14:17:15.757

Modified: 2026-08-26T17:17:14.493

Link: CVE-2026-77801

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Updated: 2026-08-26T14:45:04Z

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