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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-22217

A denial of service vulnerability in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 13.12.2, 13.11.5 or 13.10.5 allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled resource consumption with a specially crafted issue or merge request

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CVE-2021-22217
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1 Nov 2026, 07:32 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-22217

core-osv · Original source

Published 8 Jun 2021, 19:15 UTC

A denial of service vulnerability in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 13.12.2, 13.11.5 or 13.10.5 allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled resource consumption with a specially crafted issue or merge request

osv:CVE-2021-22217
Complete source record
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      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22217.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/300709",
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