CVE-2022-4007
Published: 08 March 2023
Summary
CVE-2022-4007 is a medium-severity Cross-site Scripting (CWE-79) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked in the top 22.0% of CVEs by exploit likelihood; it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2022-51388
Vulnerability details
A issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 15.3 prior to 15.7.8, version 15.8 prior to 15.8.4, and version 15.9 prior to 15.9.2 A cross-site scripting vulnerability was found in the title field of work items…
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that allowed attackers to perform arbitrary actions on behalf of victims at client side.
- 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 submits XSS payloads to web applications, detecting cross-site scripting flaws for subsequent remediation.
Validates web inputs to reject script-related content that could produce XSS.
Output validation against expected content can reject or sanitize script content in generated web pages, reducing XSS exploitability.