Cyber Resilience

CVE-2022-2865

High

Published: 17 October 2022

Published
17 October 2022
Modified
14 May 2025
KEV Added
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Patch
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CVSS Score v3.1 7.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N
EPSS Score 0.0021 43.3th percentile
Risk Priority 15 60% EPSS · 20% KEV · 20% CVSS

Summary

CVE-2022-2865 is a high-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 7.3 (High).

Operationally, ranked at the 43.3th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

EU & UK References

Vulnerability details

A cross-site scripting issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15.1.6, 15.2 to 15.2.4 and 15.3 prior to 15.3.2. It was possible to exploit a vulnerability in setting the labels colour feature which could lead to…

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a stored XSS that allowed attackers to perform arbitrary actions on behalf of victims at client side.

CWE(s)
CWE-79

Related Threats

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

Affected Assets

gitlab
gitlab
9.0.0 — 15.1.6 · 9.0.0 — 15.1.6 · 15.2 — 15.2.4

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.

CA-8 Penetration Testing
addresses: CWE-79

Penetration testing submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.

SI-10 Information Input Validation
addresses: CWE-79

Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.

SI-15 Information Output Filtering
addresses: CWE-79

Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.

References