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Bug bounty reports15,219

Publicly disclosed HackerOne reports, with the platform's own outcome and severity.

Program:GitLab
Status:Valid
Clear
Severity
Weakness:Denial of Service
Clear
Year
Bounty paid7
Access stated
  • No account0
  • A user account0
  • Admin or privileged0
Access needed
Technique
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Disclosed bug bounty reports
ReportStatusWeaknessSeverityDisclosedBountyVotes
DoS on the Issue page by exploiting Mermaid.Analysed#470067ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2019-05-13$3,000145
DoS attack via comment on IssueAnalysed#557154ValidDenial of ServiceLow2019-11-21$1,00084
Cache poisoning Denial of Service affecting assets.gitlab-static.netAnalysed#1160407ValidDenial of ServiceHigh2021-12-22–83
DOS: taking down a 1k users Gitlab EE instance or multiple Sidekiq instances by importing a malicious repo from a Github EE self-hosted serverAnalysed#2499070ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2024-10-09$2,30064
All functions that allow users to specify color code are vulnerable to ReDoS#511381ValidDenial of ServiceLow2019-08-21$1,00053
Clientside resource Exhausting by exploiting gitlab math rendering#549040ValidDenial of ServiceLow2019-10-01–50
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in any Markdown field using Mermaid#670572ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2019-12-20–31
No redirect_uri in the db for web-internal clientKey leads to one-click DoS on gitter.im#702987ValidDenial of ServiceLow2020-05-15–26
DOS via issue preview#1543718ValidDenial of ServiceHigh2022-11-04$7,64025
ReDoS due to device-detector parsing user agents#1772063ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2024-10-08–23
DOS via move_issue#1543584ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2022-11-04$2,30019
ReDoS in syntax highlighting due to Rouge#1283484ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2021-11-15$60013
ReDoS in net/http affects webhooks: Sidekiq job stuck at 100% CPU for a year#1531958ValidDenial of ServiceMedium2022-09-13–9
Cookie bomb#221041ValidDenial of Service–2018-02-16–6

Status and severity are HackerOne's. “Access stated” is what the title says; “Access needed” and techniques come from CyberSIXT's analysis of the public report (1,443 analysed so far), which can be wrong. Data as of 2026-11-14.