CVE-2021-22205

highpriority · act · 90OT risk · criticalKEV · exploitedEPSS 0.997 · 100 %ileexploit · weaponizedEURUUS

grimoire priorityP0 · Act now

Exploitable?

Yes · in the wild

CISA KEV · 28 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

99.7% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

12 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · fstec_bdu · nvd

added 2021-11-03remediate by 2021-11-17

required action Apply updates per vendor instructions.

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Vulnerability

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.

cvss

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

10.0

010

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

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 6

v3.110criticalAV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · FSTEC (BDU) RU

v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · cve@gitlab.comexploitability 3.9 · impact 6

v3.110criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: active · Automatable: yes · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-94USprimaryCWE-20US

ATT&CK techniques

ATT&CK techniques this enables or maps to.

exploits (28)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/multi/http/gitlab_exif_rceGitLab Unauthenticated Remote ExifTool Command Injectionweaponized · metasploit
EDB-50532GitLab 13.10.2 - Remote Code Execution (RCE) (Unauthenticated)PoC · exploit_db
Al1ex/CVE-2021-22205CVE-2021-22205& GitLab CE/EE RCEPoC · poc_in_github
CyberCTF/vulhub-gitlab-cve-2021-22205Vulhub gitlab/CVE-2021-22205: GitLab CE 13.10.1 ExifTool unauthenticated RCE, run with IsoloomPoC · poc_in_github
DIVD-NL/GitLab-cve-2021-22205-nseNSE script to fingerprint if GitLab is vulnerable to cve-2021-22205-nsePoC · poc_in_github
Hikikan/CVE-2021-22205Hikikan/CVE-2021-22205PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (12)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

GitLab GitLab11.9, → 13.8.8enisa_euvdEU
GitLab GitLab13.10, → 13.10.3enisa_euvdEU
GitLab GitLab13.9, → 13.9.6enisa_euvdEU
GitLab Inc. Gitlab11.9.0 → 13.8.8fstec_bduRU
GitLab Inc. Gitlab13.10.0 → 13.10.3fstec_bduRU
GitLab Inc. Gitlab13.9.0 → 13.9.6fstec_bduRU
gitlab gitlab11.9.0 → 13.8.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab13.10.0 → 13.10.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab13.9.0 → 13.9.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Bitnami gitlab11.9.0 → 13.8.8osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab
Bitnami gitlab13.10.0 → 13.10.3osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab
Bitnami gitlab13.9.0 → 13.9.6osvUSpkg:bitnami/gitlab

advisories (1)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

BIT-gitlab-2021-222052024-03-06vendor · osvUS
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.

also known as (4)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd fstec_bdu nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2021-04-23modified 2026-08-06

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references (23)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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