CVE-2021-22190 (GCVE-0-2021-22190)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-12 14:31 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:37
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
A path traversal vulnerability via the GitLab Workhorse in all versions of GitLab could result in the leakage of a JWT token
Severity
8.5 (High)
CWE
- Improper handling of url encoding (hex encoding) in GitLab
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/300281 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://hackerone.com/reports/1040786 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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