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CVE-2021-22181

Status: ModifiedMedium (6.5)—

A denial of service vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions since 11.8 allows an attacker to create a recursive pipeline relationship and exhaust resources.

CVSS

Exploitation probability (EPSS)

EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).

Affected technologies (1)

Gitlab — Gitlab

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