CVE-2022-1416 Cross-site scripting in GitLab

What is CVE-2022-1416?

CVE-2022-1416 is a medium-severity cross-site scripting vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 19 May 2022. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Missing sanitization of data in Pipeline error messages in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 1.0.2 before 14.8.6, all versions from 14.9.0 before 14.9.4, and all versions from 14.10.0 before 14.10.1 allows for rendering of attacker controlled HTML tags and CSS styling

Weakness: CWE-79

Which versions are affected by CVE-2022-1416?

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

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2022-1416?

Upgrade gitlab to a fixed version for your release line: 14.8.6, 14.9.4 or 14.10.1.

Escape output for the context it lands in and set a strict Content Security Policy. Upgrading the affected component is the real fix. More about Cross-site scripting.

Is CVE-2022-1416 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2022-1416 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2026-85706 GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition Path Traversal Exploited Critical 10.0
• CVE-2023-7028 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Exploited Critical 10.0
• 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

All Gitlab Gitlab vulnerabilities

Sources

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

Also known as BIT-gitlab-2022-1416, GHSA-2h7w-85g4-9cx4.