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Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2021-22254: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Aug 20, 2021
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Under very specific conditions a user could be impersonated using Gitlab shell. This vulnerability affects GitLab CE/EE 13.1 and later through 14.1.2, 14.0.7 and 13.12.9.

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
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