CVE-2021-22178
Published: 24 March 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-22178 is a medium-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 5.0 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 48.8% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog; a public proof-of-concept is referenced.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-9324
Vulnerability details
An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 13.2. Gitlab was vulnerable to SRRF attack through the Prometheus integration.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing attempts server-side requests to internal resources, identifying SSRF weaknesses for remediation.
Outbound connections to external resources can be monitored and limited at the boundary, reducing SSRF impact.
Validates server-side URLs and resource references to block SSRF attempts.
Detects server-side request forgery through monitoring of unexpected outbound connections.