CVE-2025-0290 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2025-0290

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop') in GitLab

Vulnerability Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 15.0 prior to 17.5.5, from 17.6 prior to 17.6.3, and from 17.7 prior to 17.7.1. Under certain conditions, processing of CI artifacts metadata could cause background jobs to become unresponsive.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • This vulnerability was discovered internally by GitLab team member [Stan Hu](https://gitlab.com/stanhu).

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

GitLab
Vulnerable Versions:
15.0, 17.7, 17.8

Timeline

Official Publish: January 28th, 2025
Last Modified: January 28th, 2025
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-835

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1499 Endpoint Denial of Service
Impact
T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application
Initial Access
T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter
Execution
T1562 Impair Defenses
Defense Evasion
T1485 Data Destruction
Impact