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CVE-2021-22226

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2021-07-06 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Under certain conditions, some users were able to push to protected branches that were restricted to deploy keys in GitLab CE/EE since version 13.9

Affected products

• GitLab: from 13.9.0 before 13.11.6; from 13.12.0 before 13.12.6; from 14.0.0 before 14.0.2 — fixed in 13.11.6, 13.12.6, 14.0.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 13.11.6, 13.12.6, 14.0.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22226.json
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/326684
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22226.json
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/326684

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