CVE-2021-22186

MediumCVSS 4.9/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An authorization issue in GitLab CE/EE version 9.4 and up allowed a group maintainer to modify group CI/CD variables which should be restricted to group owners

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 4.9/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-863

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	>=9.4, <13.7.8; >=13.8, <13.8.5; >=13.9, <13.9.2

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22186.jsonVendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/321653Broken Link
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-22186.jsonVendor Advisory
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/321653Broken Link

Timeline

Published: Mar 24, 2021
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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