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Gitlab: CVE-2021-22205: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

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Gitlab: CVE-2021-22205: Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
04/23/2021
Created
11/05/2021
Added
11/04/2021
Modified
05/03/2022

Description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 11.9. GitLab was not properly validating image files that were passed to a file parser which resulted in a remote command execution.

This check requires the Metasploit Remote Check Service to be enabled on Scan Engines. Please see the Metasploit Remote Check Service documentation for instructions on how to enable this functionality.

Solution(s)

  • gitlab-cve-2021-22205

References

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