VulnerabilityModified
CVE-2021-22181
A denial of service vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions since 11.8 allows an attacker to create a recursive pipeline relationship and exhaust resources.
MEDIUM 6.5EPSS 1.10%
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.10%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
Description
A denial of service vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions since 11.8 allows an attacker to create a recursive pipeline relationship and exhaust resources.
- CVSS 3.1
- 6.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 1.10% probability · 65th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- gitlab/gitlab
- Source
- cve@gitlab.com
EPSS 1.1% since 26 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22181.jsonVendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/249100Broken Link
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22181.jsonVendor Advisory
- https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/249100Broken Link
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.