CVE-2021-22197

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2021-04-02 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-835

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 10.6 where an infinite loop exist when an authenticated user with specific rights access a MR having source and target branch pointing to each other

Affected products

GitLab: from 10.6.0 before 13.8.7; from 13.9.0 before 13.9.5; from 13.10.0 before 13.10.1 — fixed in 13.10.1, 13.8.7, 13.9.5

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 13.10.1, 13.8.7, 13.9.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22197.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/323198
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22197.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/323198

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