CVE-2021-22205
CRITICAL10.0⚠ KEVEPSS 94.5%GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
Published: 3/6/2024Modified: 10/22/2025Added to CISA KEV: 11/3/2021
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Bitnami/gitlab>= 11.9.0, < 13.8.8, >= 13.9.0, < 13.9.6, >= 13.10.0, < 13.10.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL10.0 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
References (7)
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164768/GitLab-Unauthenticated-Remote-ExifTool-Command-Injection.html
- WEBhttp://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164994/GitLab-13.10.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html
- WEBhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22205.json
- WEBhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/327121
- WEBhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1154542
- WEBhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22205
- WEBhttps://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-22205