CVE-2021-22205

Severity CVSS v4.0:

Pending analysis

Type:

CWE-94 Code Injection

Publication date:

23/04/2021

Last modified:

24/10/2025

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 11.9. GitLab was not properly validating image files that were passed to a file parser which resulted in a remote command execution.

Impact

Vector 3.x

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

Base Score: 10.00 CRITICAL
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

Base Score 3.x

10.00

Severity 3.x

CRITICAL

Vector 2.0

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 7.50 HIGH
Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Attack Vector (AV): Network
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): Physical
Availability (A): Physical

Base Score 2.0

7.50

Severity 2.0

HIGH

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE	From	Up to
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*	11.9.0 (including)	13.8.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*	11.9.0 (including)	13.8.8 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*	13.9.0 (including)	13.9.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*	13.9.0 (including)	13.9.6 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*	13.10.0 (including)	13.10.3 (excluding)
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*	13.10.0 (including)	13.10.3 (excluding)

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

CVE-2021-22205

Description

Impact

Vulnerable products and versions

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools