Medium
Security advisory
Improper validation of invited users' email address in GitLab EE affecting all versions since 12.2 allowed projects to add members with email address domain that should be blocked by group settings
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22251
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:39 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Improper validation of invited users' email address in GitLab EE affecting all versions since 12.2 allowed projects to add members with email address domain that should be blocked by group settings
osv:CVE-2021-22251
Complete source record
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"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2021-22251",
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"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-22251",
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"severity": "medium",
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"modified": "2026-10-20T10:54:30.835665771Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22251.json",
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/14004",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/679567"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 385470,
"published_at": "2021-08-23T20:15:12.83+00:00"
}