High severity · published Jan 15, 2021
CVE-2021-22166
An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method
7.5
CVSS
1.4%
EPSS
No
On KEV
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
None
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.4% · higher than 72% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
GI
GitLab · GitLab
13.7.0 before 13.7.2; 13.7.0 before 13.7.2 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-22166
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-22166
Third Party Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22166.json
Broken Link
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/labkit/-/issues/29
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