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CVE-2022-1121

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2022-04-04 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-770

Description

A lack of appropriate timeouts in GitLab Pages included in GitLab CE/EE all versions prior to 14.7.7, 14.8 prior to 14.8.5, and 14.9 prior to 14.9.2 allows an attacker to cause unlimited resource consumption.

Affected products

• GitLab: before 14.7.7; from 14.8.0 before 14.8.5; from 14.9.0 before 14.9.2 — fixed in 14.7.7, 14.8.5, 14.9.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: GitLab 14.7.7, 14.8.5, 14.9.2. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-1121.json
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/-/issues/684
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-1121.json
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-pages/-/issues/684

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