GitLab CE/EE Event Collection Denial of Service
CVE-2025-10497 is a denial-of-service vulnerability in the event collection subsystem of GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. According to the provided content, affected versions are GitLab CE/EE 17.10 before 18.3.5, 18.4 before 18.4.3, and 18.5 before 18.5.1. The flaw is described as insufficient validation of incoming payloads to the event collection endpoint, allowing an unauthenticated remote attacker to send specially crafted payloads that trigger excessive resource allocation and resource exhaustion. The issue is characterized in the content as CWE-770 and impacts availability by causing the GitLab instance to become unresponsive or unavailable.
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A denial-of-service vulnerability in GitLab event collection where unauthenticated users could send crafted payloads to disrupt service.
A vulnerability listed as trending; no technical details provided in the content.
A denial of service vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition event collection subsystem that allows unauthenticated remote attackers to trigger excessive resource allocation and cause service unavailability.
A previously addressed GitLab vulnerability affecting event collection; no further technical details are provided in the content.
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