CVE-2022-1121 Denial of service in GitLab Pages

Medium 5.3 Published Updated

An attacker can cause unlimited resource consumption in GitLab Pages due to missing timeouts, leading to denial of service.

Exploited in the wild
Not known
Login needed
Not needed
Attackable
Over the internet
Victim action needed
Not needed
Fix
Available

What is CVE-2022-1121?

CVE-2022-1121 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 4 Apr 2022. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A lack of appropriate timeouts in GitLab Pages included in GitLab CE/EE all versions prior to 14.7.7, 14.8 prior to 14.8.5, and 14.9 prior to 14.9.2 allows an attacker to cause unlimited resource consumption.

Weakness: CWE-770

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1121?

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

PackageAffectedFixed in
gitlab BitnamiAll versions14.7.7, 14.8.5, 14.9.2

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1121?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 14.7.7, 14.8.5 or 14.9.2.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2022-1121 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1121 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

Also known as BIT-gitlab-2022-1121, GHSA-4fff-jcr9-g646, UBUNTU-CVE-2022-1121.

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