Medium
Security advisory
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.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22257
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:10 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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
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"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.",
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"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"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-10-05T14:15:07.57+00:00"
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