CVE-2021-22166

mediumpriority · track · 30EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.39% (72nd) EPSS

CVSS 5 · medium

Is it mine?

6 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

7.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 5–7.5

v2.05mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 2.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 3.6

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.15.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · cve@gitlab.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 1.4

v3.16.9mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-400USprimary

affected products (6)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Gentoo Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:gentoo:linux:-
Open Source Arch Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:archlinux:archlinux:-
Oracle Linuxall versionscert_bundDEcpe:/o:oracle:linux:-
GitLab GitLab13.7, → 13.7.2enisa_euvdEU
gitlab gitlab13.7.0 → 13.7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitlab13.7.0 → 13.7.2osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2024-1809GitLab: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2021-01-07csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter, anonymer oder authentisierter Angreifer kann eine Schwachstelle in GitLab ausnutzen, um beliebigen Programmcode auszuführen, einen Denial of Service Zustand herzustellen oder Informationen offenzulegen.
BIT-gitlab-2021-221662024-03-06vendor · osvUS
An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-01-15modified 2026-06-17

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references (9)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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