CVE-2021-22175 — gitlab
CRITICALCVE-2021-22175 is a critical-severity (CVSS 9.8) Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) vulnerability. It is in CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog (added 2026-02-18) — treat it as actively exploited and patch now. A fix is available — see the affected versions and patch details below.
Exploitation Status
Actively exploited in the wild
- Confirmed by CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on 2026-02-18. Federal agencies were required to remediate by 2026-03-11.
- A successful exploit gives an attacker total control of the affected component, not partial access.
Exploitation and automatability from CISA (KEV catalog and SSVC triage) for CVE-2021-22175.
EPSS Exploitation Probability
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, from FIRST.org EPSS.
How urgent is this, really
CVE-2021-22175 by exploitation likelihood (EPSS) against impact (CVSS). In the shaded patch-first corner (EPSS 50%+, CVSS 7.0+).
Where this sits among everything scored
Of 395,249 CVEs with a current EPSS score, this one falls in the 50–90% band (highlighted). Counts from FIRST.org, log-scaled.
Description
When requests to the internal network for webhooks are enabled, a server-side request forgery vulnerability in GitLab affecting all versions starting from 10.5 was possible to exploit for an unauthenticated attacker even on a GitLab instance where registration is disabled
Affected Products
gitlabgitlabDetection & mitigation playbook
VulnerabilityDetect
Identify every host running the affected component and compare the installed build against the fixed version below — for source-built or distro-packaged software the version string, not a lockfile, is the source of truth (`dpkg -l`, `rpm -q`, or the binary's own `--version`).
Fix
Upgrade the affected component to the fixed release for CVE-2021-22175, or apply your distribution's backported patch — distro builds are often patched at an older version number, so check your vendor's advisory rather than the upstream version alone.
Workarounds
Restrict outbound requests from the affected component to an allowlist of hosts, block access to link-local and internal address ranges at the network layer, and require authentication on internal services so a forged request cannot reach them unauthenticated.
How to detect CVE-2021-22175
A community-maintained Nuclei template exists for this CVE. You can scan for it directly:
nuclei -id cve-2021-22175 -u https://target- Template
- GitLab CI Lint API - Server-Side Request Forgery
- Severity
- high
- Impact
- Unauthenticated attackers can perform arbitrary requests on internal network, potentially leading to information disclosure or internal network compromise.
- Remediation
- Update to the latest version of GitLab where the vulnerability is fixed.
Template by ProjectDiscovery nuclei-templates (0x_Akoko), MIT licensed. View the full template. Scan only systems you are authorised to test.
Frequently Asked Questions
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