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CVE-2022-2251

Published: Jan 17, 2023

Modified: Apr 8, 2025

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

4.8

MEDIUM

Description

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.

VendorProductVersions

GitLab

GitLab Runner

affected
<15.3.5
affected
>=15.4, <15.4.4
affected
>=15.5, <15.5.2

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

High

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

None

References

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