GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.11 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service condition due to improper input validation when processing specially crafted JSON payloads in the protected branches API.

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Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.7.6, 18.8.6, 18.9.2 or above.


Workaround

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History

Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:15:00 +0000

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Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.11 before 18.7.6, 18.8 before 18.8.6, and 18.9 before 18.9.2 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause a denial of service condition due to improper input validation when processing specially crafted JSON payloads in the protected branches API.
Title Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-1284
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Vendors & Products Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-03-11T16:05:30.683Z

Reserved: 2025-12-11T06:33:37.961Z

Link: CVE-2025-14513

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-03-11T16:16:19.223

Modified: 2026-03-11T16:16:19.223

Link: CVE-2025-14513

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