Known Exploited Vulnerability
10.0
CRITICAL
CVE-2021-22205
GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Co - [Actively Exploited]
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.

INFO

Published Date :

April 23, 2021, 6:15 p.m.

Last Modified :

July 12, 2022, 5:42 p.m.

Source :

[email protected]

Remotely Exploitable :

Yes !

Impact Score :

6.0

Exploitability Score :

3.9
CISA Notification
CISA KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities)

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Description :

GitHub Community and Enterprise Editions that utilize the ability to upload images through GitLab Workhorse are vulnerable to remote code execution. Workhorse passes image file extensions through ExifTool, which improperly validates the image files.

Required Action :

Apply updates per vendor instructions.

Public PoC/Exploit Available at Github

CVE-2021-22205 has a 89 public PoC/Exploit available at Github. Go to the Public Exploits tab to see the list.

Affected Products

The following products are affected by CVE-2021-22205 vulnerability. Even if cvefeed.io is aware of the exact versions of the products that are affected, the information is not represented in the table below.

ID Vendor Product Action
1 Gitlab gitlab
: Total Affected Vendor : 1 | Products : 1
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Here, you will find a curated list of external links that provide in-depth information, practical solutions, and valuable tools related to CVE-2021-22205.

URL Resource
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164768/GitLab-Unauthenticated-Remote-ExifTool-Command-Injection.html Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164994/GitLab-13.10.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html Exploit Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22205.json Vendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/327121 Broken Link
https://hackerone.com/reports/1154542 Permissions Required Third Party Advisory

We scan GitHub repositories to detect new proof-of-concept exploits. Following list is a collection of public exploits and proof-of-concepts, which have been published on GitHub (sorted by the most recently updated).

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XiaomingX/awesome-poc-for-red-team

None

Updated: 5 days, 21 hours ago
0 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : Nov. 17, 2024, 11:53 a.m. This repo has been linked 414 different CVEs too.
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0xMarcio/cve

Latest CVEs with their Proof of Concept exploits.

Python

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
5 stars 1 fork 1 watcher
Born at : May 24, 2024, 11:02 a.m. This repo has been linked 78 different CVEs too.
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cc3305/CVE-2021-22205

CVE-2021-22205 exploit script

Python

Updated: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : May 19, 2024, 11:14 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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NaInSec/CVE-PoC-in-GitHub

All CVE - PoC in GitHub

poc proofofconcept tester allcve cvegithub cvenew cvepoc cveupdate

Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
5 stars 2 fork 2 watcher
Born at : March 22, 2024, 3:58 p.m. This repo has been linked 928 different CVEs too.
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zecool/cve

None

Updated: 8 months, 1 week ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : March 11, 2024, 1:21 p.m. This repo has been linked 930 different CVEs too.
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lions2012/Penetration_Testing_POC

渗透测试有关的POC、EXP、脚本、提权、小工具等---About penetration-testing python-script poc getshell csrf xss cms php-getshell domainmod-xss csrf-webshell cobub-razor cve rce sql sql-poc poc-exp bypass oa-getshell cve-cms

Assembly Python Shell PHP C++ C Go Ruby HTML Java

Updated: 3 months, 3 weeks ago
4 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Feb. 7, 2024, 2:08 p.m. This repo has been linked 305 different CVEs too.
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bakery312/Vulhub-Reproduce

None

Updated: 9 months, 3 weeks ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Jan. 26, 2024, 10:07 a.m. This repo has been linked 161 different CVEs too.
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0xget/cve-2001-1473

cve-2001-1473

0day exploits poc security

Updated: 11 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Dec. 17, 2023, 2:11 p.m. This repo has been linked 17 different CVEs too.
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Parker-Corbitt/CS4770_CVE

This repository is made for my submission of the final project in CS 4770

Python

Updated: 11 months, 1 week ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Dec. 15, 2023, 2:41 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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NukingDragons/gitlab-cve-2021-22205

A simple bash script that exploits CVE-2021-22205 against vulnerable instances of gitlab

Shell

Updated: 1 year ago
1 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Nov. 1, 2023, 3:19 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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hktalent/bug-bounty

bounty collection

Shell Python Dockerfile Ruby JavaScript ASP.NET Classic ASP HTML PHP Jupyter Notebook

Updated: 2 months, 3 weeks ago
26 stars 4 fork 4 watcher
Born at : Sept. 11, 2023, 11:19 a.m. This repo has been linked 234 different CVEs too.
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Hikikan/CVE-2021-22205

None

Updated: 1 year, 2 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Sept. 8, 2023, 9:16 p.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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overgrowncarrot1/DejaVu-CVE-2021-22205

None

Shell

Updated: 1 year, 3 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : Aug. 2, 2023, 3:15 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.
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HimmelAward/Goby_POC

在公网收集的gobypoc+部分自己加的poc

Updated: 2 months, 2 weeks ago
96 stars 5 fork 5 watcher
Born at : July 28, 2023, 4:28 p.m. This repo has been linked 296 different CVEs too.
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asdaweee/GitLabRCECVE-2021-22205-GUI

None

Updated: 1 year, 4 months ago
0 stars 0 fork 0 watcher
Born at : July 11, 2023, 6:36 a.m. This repo has been linked 1 different CVEs too.

Results are limited to the first 15 repositories due to potential performance issues.

The following list is the news that have been mention CVE-2021-22205 vulnerability anywhere in the article.

  • security.nl
VS publiceert overzicht van meest misbruikte kwetsbaarheden in 2023

De Amerikaanse autoriteiten hebben samen met cyberagentschappen uit Australië, Canada, Nieuw-Zeeland en het Verenigd Koninkrijk een overzicht van de meest misbruikte kwetsbaarheden in 2023 opgesteld. ... Read more

Published Date: Nov 12, 2024 (1 week, 3 days ago)
CVE-2023-6448 CVE-2023-49103 CVE-2023-22518 CVE-2023-20273 CVE-2023-20198 CVE-2023-4966 CVE-2023-44487 CVE-2023-22515 CVE-2023-42793 CVE-2023-41064 ...+36 more CVE
  • Help Net Security
Number of incidents affecting GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, and Jira continues to rise

Outages, human errors, cyberattacks, data breaches, ransomware, security vulnerabilities, and, as a result, data loss are the reality that DevSecOps teams have to face every few days, according to Git ... Read more

Published Date: Aug 07, 2024 (3 months, 2 weeks ago)
CVE-2021-22205
  • 360 Netlab Blog - Network Security Research Lab at 360
Fodcha, a new DDos botnet

OverviewRecently, CNCERT and 360netlab worked together and discovered a rapidly spreading DDoS botnet on the Internet. The global infection looks fairly big as just in China there are more than 10,000 ... Read more

Published Date: Apr 13, 2022 (2 years, 7 months ago)
CVE-2022-22965 CVE-2022-22963 CVE-2022-22947 CVE-2021-35394 CVE-2021-22205

The following table lists the changes that have been made to the CVE-2021-22205 vulnerability over time.

Vulnerability history details can be useful for understanding the evolution of a vulnerability, and for identifying the most recent changes that may impact the vulnerability's severity, exploitability, or other characteristics.

  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    May. 14, 2024

    Action Type Old Value New Value
  • CWE Remap by [email protected]

    Jul. 12, 2022

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Changed CWE CWE-20 CWE-94
  • Modified Analysis by [email protected]

    Nov. 30, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Removed CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164768/GitLab-Unauthenticated-Remote-ExifTool-Command-Injection.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164768/GitLab-Unauthenticated-Remote-ExifTool-Command-Injection.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
    Changed Reference Type http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164994/GitLab-13.10.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html No Types Assigned http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164994/GitLab-13.10.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html Exploit, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 17, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164994/GitLab-13.10.2-Remote-Code-Execution.html [No Types Assigned]
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164768/GitLab-Unauthenticated-Remote-ExifTool-Command-Injection.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 10, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164768/GitLab-Unauthenticated-Remote-ExifTool-Command-Injection.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Nov. 04, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added Reference http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164768/GitLab-Unauthenticated-Remote-ExifTool-Command-Injection.html [No Types Assigned]
  • CVE Modified by [email protected]

    Sep. 22, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Removed CVSS V3.1 GitLab Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Added CVSS V3.1 GitLab Inc. AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • Initial Analysis by [email protected]

    Apr. 30, 2021

    Action Type Old Value New Value
    Added CVSS V2 NIST (AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P)
    Added CVSS V3.1 NIST AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
    Changed Reference Type https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22205.json No Types Assigned https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22205.json Vendor Advisory
    Changed Reference Type https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/327121 No Types Assigned https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/327121 Broken Link
    Changed Reference Type https://hackerone.com/reports/1154542 No Types Assigned https://hackerone.com/reports/1154542 Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
    Added CWE NIST CWE-20
    Added CPE Configuration OR *cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* versions from (including) 11.9.0 up to (excluding) 13.8.8 *cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* versions from (including) 11.9.0 up to (excluding) 13.8.8 *cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* versions from (including) 13.9.0 up to (excluding) 13.9.6 *cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* versions from (including) 13.9.0 up to (excluding) 13.9.6 *cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:* versions from (including) 13.10.0 up to (excluding) 13.10.3 *cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:* versions from (including) 13.10.0 up to (excluding) 13.10.3
EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days. Following chart shows the EPSS score history of the vulnerability.
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration

While CVE identifies specific instances of vulnerabilities, CWE categorizes the common flaws or weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2021-22205 is associated with the following CWEs:

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC) stores attack patterns, which are descriptions of the common attributes and approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2021-22205 weaknesses.

Exploit Prediction

EPSS is a daily estimate of the probability of exploitation activity being observed over the next 30 days.

97.32 }} -0.05%

score

0.99907

percentile

CVSS31 - Vulnerability Scoring System
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