Name: CVE-2021-22166: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2021-01-15T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2021-22166, CWE-400, CVSS 5.3, EPSS 0.01394

An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.3
CVSS 3.1 Vector: (CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Arch Linux	—	Upgrade to the latest version of Arch Linux	Jul 11, 2025	Jan 15, 2021
Freebsd	—	Upgrade gitlab-ce	Jan 10, 2021	Jan 9, 2021

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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