Cyber Resilience

CVE-2021-22197

Low

Published: 02 April 2021

Published
02 April 2021
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
Patch
CVSS Score v3.1 3.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
EPSS Score 0.0035 58.0th percentile
Risk Priority 7 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2021-22197 is a low-severity Infinite Loop (CWE-835) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 3.5 (Low).

Operationally, ranked in the top 42.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

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

CWE(s)

Related Threats

No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.

Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
10.6.0 — 13.8.7 · 10.6.0 — 13.8.7 · 13.9.0 — 13.9.5

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.

addresses: CWE-835

Enables transfer to alternate site if an infinite loop at the primary renders processing unavailable.

addresses: CWE-835

Detects and mitigates infinite loops that produce sustained resource consumption.

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