Skip to content
Heist/ feed
Back to feed
Medium

Security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-22259

A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab EE starting with version 12.6 due to lack of pagination in dependencies API.

Products
Not specified
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
Not specified
CVEs
CVE-2021-22259
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 04:33 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-22259

core-osv · Original source

Published 4 Oct 2021, 17:15 UTC

A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab EE starting with version 12.6 due to lack of pagination in dependencies API.

osv:CVE-2021-22259
Complete source record
{
  "id": "5d353169b1de5edf2e4b694d5f927ad33242bc5657af103e55c58ceb5eb052ef",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-22259",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2021-22259",
    "summary": "A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab EE starting with version 12.6 due to lack of pagination in dependencies API.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-22259",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2021-22259",
      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2021-22259",
        "CVE-2021-22259"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "11ac4a9aa216b39b2880f8a647f39f6ea77cef1a"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "9cd657e5179e339171d27e4573b8f5711db1d824"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "12.6.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "14.1.7"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2021-22259.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:44.916764171Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22259.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/335146"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2021-22259",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430133,
  "published_at": "2021-10-04T17:15:07.687+00:00"
}