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CVE-2021-22198 (GCVE-0-2021-22198)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-04-02 16:20 – Updated: 2024-08-03 18:37
VLAI
Summary
An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 13.8 and above allowing an authenticated user to delete incident metric images of public projects.
CWE
  • Improper access control in GitLab
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: >=13.8, <13.8.7
Affected: >=13.9, <13.9.5
Affected: >=13.10, <13.10.1
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