CVE-2025-2937

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab

Published Aug 13, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 6.5 Medium EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.2 before 18.0.6, 18.1 before 18.1.4, and 18.2 before 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users to create a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted markdown payloads to the Wiki feature.

Remediation

Vendor Solution

Upgrade to versions 18.0.6, 18.1.4, 18.2.2 or above.

Tracking

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Advisories

Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2025-24598 An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.2 before 18.0.6, 18.1 before 18.1.4, and 18.2 before 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users to create a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted markdown payloads to the Wiki feature.
History
Type Values Removed Values Added
CPEs cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}

Type Values Removed Values Added
Description An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.2 before 18.0.6, 18.1 before 18.1.4, and 18.2 before 18.2.2 that could have allowed authenticated users to create a denial of service condition by sending specially crafted markdown payloads to the Wiki feature.
Title Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity in GitLab
First Time appeared Gitlab
Gitlab gitlab
Weaknesses CWE-1333
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'}

Weaknesses

Sources

Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
GitLab
Published
Updated
Aug 13, 2025, 8:03 PM
Reserved
Mar 28, 2025, 5:30 PM
Status
Analyzed
Published
Aug 13, 2025, 6:15 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 9:07 AM