CVE-2022-2251

4.8MEDIUM

Key Information:

Vendor
Gitlab
Vendor
CVE Published:
17 January 2023

Summary

Improper sanitization of branch names in GitLab Runner affecting all versions prior to 15.3.5, 15.4 prior to 15.4.4, and 15.5 prior to 15.5.2 allows a user who creates a branch with a specially crafted name and gets another user to trigger a pipeline to execute commands in the runner as that other user.

Affected Version(s)

GitLab Runner <15.3.5 < 15.3.5

GitLab Runner >=15.4, <15.4.4 < 15.4, 15.4.4

GitLab Runner >=15.5, <15.5.2 < 15.5, 15.5.2

References

EPSS Score

2% chance of being exploited in the next 30 days.

CVSS V3.1

Score:
4.8
Severity:
MEDIUM
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
None
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
High
Privileges Required:
Low
User Interaction:
Required
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

Collectors

NVD DatabaseMitre Database

Credit

Thanks [stanlyoncm](https://hackerone.com/stanlyoncm) for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
.