CVE-2021-22166 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method

Published: 2021-01-15

Score: 5.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

GitLab

GitLab

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`>=13.7, <13.7.2`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::community:::*
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:::::enterprise:::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2021-9312	An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Low

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.0015.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22166.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/labkit/-/issues/29

History

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Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2021-01-15T15:13:51.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-03T18:37:17.189Z

Reserved: 2021-01-05T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2021-22166

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2021-01-15T16:15:13.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T05:49:37.737

Link: CVE-2021-22166

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-400

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