What is CVE-2026-77801?

CVE-2026-77801 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-26.

How severe is CVE-2026-77801?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in GitLab

CVE-2026-77801

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 v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Gitlab

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

cve@gitlab.com
cve@gitlab.com

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2026-77801?: CVE-2026-77801 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2026-08-26.
How severe is CVE-2026-77801?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.