CVE-2022-1100: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.1 prior to 14.7.7, 14.8.0 prior to 14.8.5, and 14.9.0 prior to 14.9.2. The api to update an asset as a link from a release had a regex check which caused exponential number of backtracks for certain user supplied values resulting in high CPU usage.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 13.1.0, before 14.7.7 (fixed in 14.7.7); from 14.8.0, before 14.8.5 (fixed in 14.8.5); from 14.9.0, before 14.9.2 (fixed in 14.9.2)

Published 2022-04-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.