GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.2 before 18.7.5, 18.8 before 18.8.5, and 18.9 before 18.9.1 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause regular expression denial of service by sending specially crafted input to a merge request endpoint under certain conditions.
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Wed, 25 Feb 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Description GitLab has remediated an issue in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 9.2 before 18.7.5, 18.8 before 18.8.5, and 18.9 before 18.9.1 that could have allowed an unauthenticated user to cause regular expression denial of service by sending specially crafted input to a merge request endpoint under certain conditions.
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': 7.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published:

Updated: 2026-02-25T20:05:05.289Z

Reserved: 2026-01-23T20:33:20.246Z

Link: CVE-2026-1388

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-02-25T21:16:36.500

Modified: 2026-02-25T21:16:36.500

Link: CVE-2026-1388

cve-icon Redhat

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cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

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