PT-2022-4616 · Gitlab · Gitlab Ce/Ee+1

Published 2022-08-30 · Updated 2025-05-13 · CVE-2022-2455

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.8

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GitLab CE/EE versions 10.0 through 15.1.5 GitLab CE/EE versions 15.2 through 15.2.3 GitLab CE/EE versions 15.3 through 15.3.1

Description A business logic issue in the handling of large repositories allowed an authenticated and authorized user to exhaust server resources by importing a malicious project. This could lead to a denial of service. The issue is related to the incorrect handling of logical operations in the Gitaly.GetTreeEntries component.

Recommendations For GitLab CE/EE versions 10.0 through 15.1.5, update to version 15.1.6 or later. For GitLab CE/EE versions 15.2 through 15.2.3, update to version 15.2.4 or later. For GitLab CE/EE versions 15.3 through 15.3.1, update to version 15.3.2 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Resource Exhaustion

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-400

CWE-840

Related Identifiers

BDU:2022-05494

BIT-GITLAB-2022-2455

CVE-2022-2455

Affected Products

Gitlab

Gitlab Ce/Ee

References · 14

• 🔥 https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/2xxx/CVE-2022-2455.json · Exploit
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2022-2455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2022-05494 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2455 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2022-2455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2022-2455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2455 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/BIT-gitlab-2022-2455 · Vendor Advisory
• https://t.me/cvenotify/122051 · Telegram Post
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/51599 · Telegram Post
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2455.json · Note
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/359964 · Note
• https://hackerone.com/reports/1542230 · Note
• https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/08/30/critical-security-release-gitlab-15-3-2-released · Note