CVE-2022-2455

Publication date 17 October 2022

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A business logic issue in the handling of large repositories in all versions of GitLab CE/EE from 10.0 before 15.1.6, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.4, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.2 allowed an authenticated and authorized user to exhaust server resources by importing a malicious project.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
gitlab	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not in release
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored not maintainable

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Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.5 · Medium
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

MITRE
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

Other references

https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2022/08/30/critical-security-release-gitlab-15-3-2-released/
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-2455