CVE-2021-22221 Auth bypass in GitLab

What is CVE-2021-22221?

CVE-2021-22221 is a medium-severity authentication bypass vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 8 Jun 2021. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 12.9.0 before 13.10.5, all versions starting from 13.11.0 before 13.11.5, all versions starting from 13.12.0 before 13.12.2. Insufficient expired password validation in various operations allow user to maintain limited access after their password expired

Weakness: CWE-613

Which versions are affected by CVE-2021-22221?

1 open source package ship an affected version, including gitlab. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2021-22221?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 13.10.5, 13.11.5 or 13.12.2.

Upgrade, and rotate credentials and sessions that may have been exposed. More about Authentication bypass.

Is CVE-2021-22221 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2021-22221 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2021-22205 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2021-39935 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Exploited Medium 6.8

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as BIT-gitlab-2021-22221, GHSA-2p89-vr82-6vw5, UBUNTU-CVE-2021-22221.