CVE-2021-22168

mediumpriority · track · 26EPSS 0.010 · 63 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.01% (63rd) EPSS

CVSS 4 · medium

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

A regular expression denial of service issue has been discovered in NuGet API affecting all versions of GitLab starting from version 12.8.

cvss

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

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.04mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 2.9

v3.16.5mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 3.6

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.14.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Lsecondary · cve@gitlab.comexploitability 2.8 · impact 1.4

v3.16mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/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 (12)

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 GitLab12.8, → 13.5.6enisa_euvdEU
GitLab GitLab13.6.0, → 13.6.4enisa_euvdEU
GitLab GitLab13.7.0, → 13.7.2enisa_euvdEU
gitlab gitlab12.8.0 → 13.5.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab13.6.0 → 13.6.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab13.7.0 → 13.7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitlab12.8.0 → 13.5.6osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab
Bitnami gitlab13.6.0 → 13.6.4osvUSpkg:bitnami/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-2021-221682024-03-06vendor · osvUS
A regular expression denial of service issue has been discovered in NuGet API affecting all versions of GitLab starting from version 12.8.

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 (8)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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