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CVE-2021-22202 (GCVE-0-2021-22202)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-02 16:25 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:37
VLAI
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all previous versions. If the victim is an admin, it was possible to issue a CSRF in System hooks through the API.
Severity
2.4 (Low)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
CWE
  • Cross-site request forgery (csrf) in GitLab
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: >=13.10, <13.10.1
Affected: >=13.9, <13.9.5
Affected: <13.8.7
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Credits
Thanks [@mishre](https://hackerone.com/mishre) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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