CVE-2021-22252: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A confusion between tag and branch names in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions since 13.7 allowed a Developer to access protected CI variables which should only be accessible to Maintainers

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 13.7.0, before 13.12.9 (fixed in 13.12.9); from 14.0.0, before 14.0.7 (fixed in 14.0.7); from 14.1.0, before 14.1.2 (fixed in 14.1.2)

Published 2021-08-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.