High
Security advisory
An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22166
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method
osv:CVE-2021-22166
Complete source record
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"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-22166",
"method": "structured",
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"title": "CVE-2021-22166",
"summary": "An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-22166",
"products": [],
"severity": "high",
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"aliases": [
"BIT-gitlab-2021-22166",
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],
"metrics": [
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"type": "CVSS_V3",
"score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
}
],
"affected": [
{
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"repo": "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab",
"type": "GIT",
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},
{
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}
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"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*",
"range": [
{
"introduced": "13.7.0"
},
{
"fixed": "13.7.2"
}
],
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"cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*",
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"versions": [
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],
"database_specific": {
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}
}
],
"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:53.947314904Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22166.json",
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/labkit/-/issues/29"
],
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 434683,
"published_at": "2021-01-15T16:15:13.217+00:00"
}