What is CVE-2022-1121?

CVE-2022-1121 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-04-04.

How severe is CVE-2022-1121?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in GitLab

CVE-2022-1121

A lack of appropriate timeouts in GitLab Pages included in GitLab CE/EE all versions prior to 14.7.7, 14.8 prior to 14.8.5, and 14.9 prior to 14.9.2 allows an attacker to cause unlimited resource consumption.

Published 2022-04-04 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.3 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.011 (63.8th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 64th percentile — 63.8% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.011 · newest: 0.011 · change: 0.000

Affected products

GitLab
GitLab Pages — versions <14.7.7, >=14.8, <14.8.5, >=14.9, <14.9.2

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-770 — Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/-/issues/684 (Broken Link)
gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-1121.json (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2022-1121?: CVE-2022-1121 is a medium-severity vulnerability in GitLab, classified under Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling. CVSS score: 5.3/10. Published 2022-04-04.
How severe is CVE-2022-1121?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.3 out of 10.