CVE-2021-22205: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution
This GitLab advisory covers CVE-2021-22205 in GitLab.
- CVE-2021-22205
Key facts
- Vendor rating
- Critical, CVSS 10
- CISA KEV
- Listed ; federal due date ; ransomware use known to CISA
- Affected
- GitLab >=11.9, <13.8.8; GitLab >=13.9, <13.9.6; GitLab >=13.10, <13.10.3
- Source published
- Source revised
- Listed by VulniPulse
- Record changed
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Affected products & platforms
CVE-2021-22205 in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
- CISA name:
- GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Vulnerability
- CISA description:
- GitHub Community and Enterprise Editions that utilize the ability to upload images through GitLab Workhorse are vulnerable to remote code execution. Workhorse passes image file extensions through ExifTool, which improperly validates the image files.
- Required action:
- Apply updates per vendor instructions.
Description
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 11.9. GitLab was not properly validating image files that were passed to a file parser which resulted in a remote command execution.
Text from the source record.
- GitLab >=11.9, <13.8.8
- GitLab >=13.9, <13.9.6
- GitLab >=13.10, <13.10.3
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