What is CVE-2018-15472?

CVE-2018-15472 is a high-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-04-15.

How severe is CVE-2018-15472?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in GitLab

CVE-2018-15472

An issue was discovered in GitLab Community and Enterprise Edition before 11.1.7, 11.2.x before 11.2.4, and 11.3.x before 11.3.1. The diff formatter using rouge can block for a long time in Sidekiq jobs without any timeout.

Published 2023-04-15 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (52.1th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 52nd percentile — 52.1% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GitLab — versions 11.3.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

about.gitlab.com/blog/categories/releases/ (Release Notes)
about.gitlab.com/releases/2018/10/01/security-release-gitlab-11-dot-3-dot-1-rel… (Release Notes, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2018-15472?: CVE-2018-15472 is a high-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2023-04-15.
How severe is CVE-2018-15472?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.