High
Security advisory
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.8. GitLab was not properly validating authorisation tokens which resulted in GraphQL mutation being executed.
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22209
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 07:42 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.8. GitLab was not properly validating authorisation tokens which resulted in GraphQL mutation being executed.
osv:CVE-2021-22209
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-22209",
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:43.162173390Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22209.json",
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/327155"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 438808,
"published_at": "2021-05-06T14:15:08.017+00:00"
}