CVE-2021-22216

Severity Score

6.5

*CVSS v3.1

Exploit Likelihood

*EPSS

Affected Versions

*CPE

Public Exploits

*Multiple Sources

Exploited in Wild

*KEV

Decision

*SSVC

Descriptions

A denial of service vulnerability in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 13.12.2, 13.11.5 or 13.10.5 allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled resource consumption with a very long issue or merge request description

Una vulnerabilidad de denegación de servicio en GitLab CE/EE todas las versiones anteriores a 13.12.2, 13.11.5 o 13.10.5, permite a un atacante causar un consumo no controlado de recursos con una descripción de petición de emisión o fusión muy larga

*Credits: This vulnerability has been discovered internally by the GitLab team

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Authentication

Single

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

Partial

* Common Vulnerability Scoring System

SSVC

Decision:-

Exploitation

Automatable

Tech. Impact

* Organization's Worst-case Scenario

Timeline

2021-01-05 CVE Reserved
2021-06-08 CVE Published
2023-03-08 EPSS Updated
2024-08-03 CVE Updated
---------- Exploited in Wild
---------- KEV Due Date
---------- First Exploit

CWE

CWE-400: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

CAPEC

References (2)

URL	Tag	Source
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/329890	Broken Link

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC

URL	Date	SRC
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22216.json	2021-06-15

Affected Vendors, Products, and Versions

Vendor		Product				Version		Other		Status
Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status	<-- -->	Vendor	Product	Version	Other	Status
Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab"		Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab"				< 13.10.5 Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab" and version " < 13.10.5"		community		Affected
Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab"		Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab"				< 13.10.5 Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab" and version " < 13.10.5"		enterprise		Affected
Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab"		Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab"				>= 13.11.0 < 13.11.5 Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab" and version " >= 13.11.0 < 13.11.5"		community		Affected
Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab"		Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab"				>= 13.11.0 < 13.11.5 Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab" and version " >= 13.11.0 < 13.11.5"		enterprise		Affected
Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab"		Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab"				>= 13.12.0 < 13.12.2 Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab" and version " >= 13.12.0 < 13.12.2"		community		Affected
Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab"		Gitlab Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab"				>= 13.12.0 < 13.12.2 Search vendor "Gitlab" for product "Gitlab" and version " >= 13.12.0 < 13.12.2"		enterprise		Affected