CVE-2021-22197 - CVE House
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Status published Low CVE-2021-22197

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all...

Vulnerability Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 10.6 where an infinite loop exist when an authenticated user with specific rights access a MR having source and target branch pointing to each other

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

  • This vulnerability has been discovered internally by the GitLab team

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

GitLab
Vulnerable Versions:
>=10.6, <13.8.7, >=13.9, <13.9.5, >=13.10, <13.10.1

Timeline

Official Publish: April 2nd, 2021
Last Modified: August 3rd, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.