⚠ Actively exploited
Added to CISA KEV on 2026-02-18. Federal agencies required to patch by 2026-03-11. Required action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable..

CVE-2021-22175Server-Side Request Forgery in Gitlab

Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
VulnCheck6.8
EPSS
76.6%
top 1.05%
CISA KEV
KEV
Added 2026-02-18
Due 2026-03-11
Exploit
PoC available
Public exploit / PoC exists
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJun 11
KEV addedFeb 18
KEV dueMar 11
CISA Required Action: Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDgitlab/gitlab10.5.013.6.7+2
debiandebian/gitlab< gitlab 15.10.8+ds1-2 (sid)
CVEListV5gitlab/gitlab>=10.5, <13.6.7, >=13.7, <13.7.7, >=13.8, <13.8.4+2
gitlabgitlab/gitlab

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-4gm2-v7j4-74p8: When requests to the internal network for webhooks are enabled, a server-side request forgery vulnerability in GitLab affecting all versions starting2022-05-24
OSV
CVE-2021-22175: When requests to the internal network for webhooks are enabled, a server-side request forgery vulnerability in GitLab affecting all versions starting2021-06-11
VulnCheck
GitLab Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability2021

💥Exploits & PoCs

2
Nuclei
Gitlab CE/EE 10.5 - Server-Side Request Forgery
Nuclei
GitLab CI Lint API - Server-Side Request Forgery

📋Vendor Advisories

3
CISA
GitLab Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability2026-02-18
GitLab
CVE-2021-22175: When requests to the internal network for webhooks are enabled, a server-side request forgery vulnerability in GitLab affecting all versions starting2021-06-11
Debian
CVE-2021-22175: gitlab - When requests to the internal network for webhooks are enabled, a server-side re...2021

🕵️Threat Intelligence

1
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