Medium
Security advisory
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 14.0. It was possible to exploit a stored cross-site-scripting via a specifically crafted default branch name.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22241
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 04:33 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 14.0. It was possible to exploit a stored cross-site-scripting via a specifically crafted default branch name.
osv:CVE-2021-22241
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:19.654463683Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22241.json",
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/336460",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/1256777"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-08-05T20:15:07.87+00:00"
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