CVE-2023-5825: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 16.2 before 16.3.6, all versions starting from 16.4 before 16.4.2, all versions starting from 16.5 before 16.5.1. A low-privileged attacker can point a CI/CD Component to an incorrect path and cause the server to exhaust all available memory through an infinite loop and cause Denial of Service.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 16.2.0, before 16.3.6 (fixed in 16.3.6); from 16.4.0, before 16.4.2 (fixed in 16.4.2); version 16.5.0 only

Published 2023-11-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.