Denial of Service in GitLab CE/EE JSON validation middleware
CVE-2026-0958 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) caused by the ability to bypass JSON validation middleware limits. GitLab states that this issue affects all versions from 18.4 before 18.6.6, 18.7 before 18.7.4, and 18.8 before 18.8.4. By circumventing the intended request validation limits in the JSON processing path, an unauthenticated attacker can submit requests that drive excessive memory consumption or CPU utilization, resulting in resource exhaustion and service degradation or outage.
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A high-severity GitLab vulnerability enabling denial of service (DoS) via resource exhaustion.
A high-severity denial-of-service/resource exhaustion issue in GitLab’s JSON validation middleware that can be abused to consume CPU/memory.
GitLab denial-of-service vulnerability enabling memory/CPU exhaustion by bypassing JSON validation middleware limits.
Unauthenticated DoS via bypass of JSON validation middleware limits leading to CPU/memory exhaustion.
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