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CVE-2021-22209 (GCVE-0-2021-22209)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-05-06 13:37 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:37
VLAI
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.8. GitLab was not properly validating authorisation tokens which resulted in GraphQL mutation being executed.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Improper authorization in GitLab
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: >=13.11, <13.11.12
Affected: >=13.10, <13.10.4
Affected: >=13.8, <13.9.7
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This vulnerability has been discovered internally by the GitLab team
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