CVE-2022-2251

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-78 OS Command Injections

Publication date:

17/01/2023

Last modified:

08/04/2025

Description

Improper sanitization of branch names in GitLab Runner affecting all versions prior to 15.3.5, 15.4 prior to 15.4.4, and 15.5 prior to 15.5.2 allows a user who creates a branch with a specially crafted name and gets another user to trigger a pipeline to execute commands in the runner as that other user.

Impact

Vector 3.x

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS v3.1 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 4.80 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): High
Privileges Required (PR): Low
User Interaction (UI): Required
Scope (S): Unchanged
Confidentiality (C): High
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 3.x

4.80

Severity 3.x

MEDIUM

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:runner::::::::		15.3.5 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:runner::::::::	15.4.0 (including)	15.4.4 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:runner::::::::	15.5.0 (including)	15.5.2 (excluding)

To consult the complete list of CPE names with products and versions, see this page

CVE-2022-2251

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

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