Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-0741

Medium

Published: 01 April 2022

Published
01 April 2022
Modified
21 November 2024
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 5.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0027 51.1th percentile
Risk Priority 12 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-0741 is a medium-severity Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output (CWE-116) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 5.8 (Medium).

Operationally, ranked in the top 48.9% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

Improper input validation in all versions of GitLab CE/EE using sendmail to send emails allowed an attacker to steal environment variables via specially crafted email addresses.

CWE(s)
CWE-116

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
10.0.0 — 14.6.5 · 10.0.0 — 14.6.5 · 14.7.0 — 14.7.4

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.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-116

Validating that output matches expected content directly mitigates failures to properly encode or escape data for its destination context.

References