Insufficient Session Expiration in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2021-22221

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Insufficient Session Expiration in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2021-22221

Published: June 14, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU54088
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Green
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-22221
CWE-ID: CWE-613
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vendor: GitLab, Inc
Affected software:
Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition

Detailed vulnerability description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to gain access to sensitive information.

The vulnerability exists due to insufficient session expiration issue. A remote non-authenticated attacker can obtain or guess session token and gain unauthorized access to session that belongs to another user.


How to mitigate CVE-2021-22221

Install updates from vendor's website.

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