What is CVE-2021-22168?

CVE-2021-22168 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2021-01-15.

How severe is CVE-2021-22168?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in Gitlab

CVE-2021-22168

A regular expression denial of service issue has been discovered in NuGet API affecting all versions of GitLab starting from version 12.8.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

EPSS: 0.010 (59.3th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

Affected products

Gitlab — versions >=12.8, <13.5.6, >=13.6.0, <13.6.4, >=13.7.0, <13.7.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

cve@gitlab.com (x_refsource_MISC, Broken Link)
cve@gitlab.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-22168?: CVE-2021-22168 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Gitlab, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 4.3/10. Published 2021-01-15.
How severe is CVE-2021-22168?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.3 out of 10.