CVE-2025-12983

GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 16.9 before 18.3.6, 18.4 before 18.4.4, and 18.5 before 18.5.2 that could have allowed an authenticated attacker to cause a denial of service condition by submitting specially crafted markdown content with nested formatting patterns.

CVSS 3.1

6.5CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS

0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 38% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-25)

CWE

CWE-789

Published

2025-11-15

Modified

2026-10-19

Record from

the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

• gitlab:gitlab

References

• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2025/11/12/patch-release-gitlab-18-5-2-released/
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/296257
• https://hackerone.com/reports/3419588

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