Vulnerability · Published Jun 8, 2021 · Assigned by GitLab

CVE-2021-22216

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in GitLab from GitLab. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.0% (higher than 64% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.0%top 36.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	<13.10.5>=13.11, <13.11.5>=13.12, <13.12.2

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/329890 x_refsource_MISC
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22216.json x_refsource_CONFIRM