Medium severity · published Aug 26, 2026
CVE-2026-77801
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in GitLab
6.5
CVSS
0.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.4% · higher than 37% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
GitLab · GitLab
12.8 before 19.1.7; 19.2 before 19.2.5; 19.3 before 19.3.1 · source: vendor, NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-77801
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-77801
Release Notes
https://docs.gitlab.com/releases/patches/patch-release-gitlab-19-3-1-released/
Issue Tracking
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/work_items/597273
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