Medium
Security advisory
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 very long issue or merge request description
- Products
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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-22216
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:26 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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 very long issue or merge request description
osv:CVE-2021-22216
Complete source record
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