CVE-2021-22216

6.5 mediumEPSS 1.0%

Medium (6.5) in gitlab gitlab. EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A denial of service vulnerability in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 13.12.2, 13.11.5 or 13.10.5 allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled resource consumption with a very long issue or merge request description

Severity

CVSS 3.1

6.5 medium

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

EPSS: 1.0% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 63% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-400
Published: 2021-06-08
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

Affected

gitlab:gitlab

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22216.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/329890
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22216.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/329890

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