CVE-2022-4092 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.1. It was possible to create a malicious README page due to improper neutralisation of user supplied input.

Published: 2023-01-24

Score: 5.7 Medium

EPSS: 5.1% Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Vendor Product Default status Versions

GitLab

GitLab

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`>=15.6, <15.6.1`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:15.6.0::::community:::
	cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:15.6.0::::enterprise:::

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-51463	An issue has been discovered in GitLab EE affecting all versions starting from 15.6 before 15.6.1. It was possible to create a malicious README page due to improper neutralisation of user supplied input.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact None

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.05051.

Exploitation poc

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

References

Link	Providers
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-4092.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/383208
https://hackerone.com/reports/1777934

History

Tue, 01 Apr 2025 18:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'poc', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Subscriptions

Gitlab Gitlab

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitLab

Published: 2023-01-24T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-04-01T17:36:33.623Z

Reserved: 2022-11-21T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-4092

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T01:27:54.404Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-01-26T21:18:06.410

Modified: 2025-04-01T18:15:29.050

Link: CVE-2022-4092

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

CWE-79

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