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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-22257

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 14.0 before 14.0.9, all versions starting from 14.1 before 14.1.4, all versions starting from 14.2 before 14.2.2. The route for /user.keys is not restricted on instances with public visibility disabled. This allows user enumeration on such instances.

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CVE-2021-22257
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1 Nov 2026, 06:10 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-22257

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Oct 2021, 14:15 UTC

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 14.0 before 14.0.9, all versions starting from 14.1 before 14.1.4, all versions starting from 14.2 before 14.2.2. The route for /user.keys is not restricted on instances with public visibility disabled. This allows user enumeration on such instances.

osv:CVE-2021-22257
Complete source record
{
  "id": "dabfa3298a219522a15ed19d6a4b0d31120ac1fa153b881f40b46bf7e77013c3",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-22257",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-22257",
    "summary": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 14.0 before 14.0.9, all versions starting from 14.1 before 14.1.4, all versions starting from 14.2 before 14.2.2. The route for /user.keys is not restricted on instances with public visibility disabled. This allows user enumeration on such instances.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-22257",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-22257",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2021-22257",
        "CVE-2021-22257"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
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              "type": "GIT",
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                },
                {
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                },
                {
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                },
                {
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                {
                  "fixed": "406469ced21f30ac40efcd98dad975802db778e9"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
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                  {
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                  {
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                      }
                    ],
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                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "14.2.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "14.2.2"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
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                      {
                        "fixed": "14.2.2"
                      }
                    ],
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                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v14.0.5-ee",
            "v14.0.8-ee",
            "v14.1.3-ee",
            "v14.2.1-ee",
            "v14.2.0-ee",
            "v14.1.1-ee",
            "v14.1.0-ee",
            "v14.0.6-ee",
            "v14.0.3-ee",
            "v14.0.1-ee",
            "v14.0.0-ee"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-22257.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:41.600839310Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22257.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/23832"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-22257",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433965,
  "published_at": "2021-10-05T14:15:07.57+00:00"
}