CVE-2021-22205

critical

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.

References

https://github.com/Athology0000/cve-lab

https://github.com/korneevscp/osint-target

https://github.com/K3ysTr0K3R/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/AhmetPayaslioglu/web-log-anomaly-detector

https://github.com/flags-alt/abyss-c2

https://github.com/phantom-offensive/AppAssault

https://github.com/phantom-offensive/AppAssaultLab

https://github.com/Phantom-C2-77/AppAssaultLab

https://github.com/ccordeiro/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/ThatTotallyRealMyth/Exploits-CVEs

https://github.com/cyberwithcyril/VulhubPenTestingReport

https://github.com/g1san/Agents-for-Vulnerable-Dockers-and-related-Benchmarks

https://github.com/0xget/cve-2001-1473

https://github.com/Loginsoft-Research/Linux-Exploit-Detection

https://github.com/34zY/APT-Backpack

https://github.com/Schira4396/VcenterKiller

https://github.com/keven1z/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/cc3305/CVEAllTheThings

https://github.com/GitLab-Red-Team/cve-hash-harvester

https://github.com/GitLab-Red-Team/cve-2021-22205-hash-harvester

https://github.com/gardenWhy/Gitlab-CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/awsassets/CVE-2021-22210

https://github.com/ahmad4fifz/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/runsel/GitLab-CVE-2021-22205-

https://github.com/X1pe0/Automated-Gitlab-RCE

https://github.com/devdanqtuan/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/shang159/CVE-2021-22205-getshell

https://github.com/c0okB/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/Seals6/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/whwlsfb/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/Al1ex/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/XTeam-Wing/CVE-2021-22205

https://github.com/Bin4xin/bigger-than-bigger

https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2021-22205

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/327121

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22205.json

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164994/GitLab-13.10.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html

http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164768/GitLab-Unauthenticated-Remote-ExifTool-Command-Injection.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2021-04-23

Updated: 2026-08-06

Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV)

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 10

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.99731