CVE-2022-2251

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    CVE-2022-2251

    Published: 17 Jan 2023Last Modified: 12 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: Improper sanitization of branch names in GitLab Runner affecting all versions prior to 15.3.5, 15.4 prior to 15.4.4, and 15.5 prior to 15.5.2 allows a user who creates a branch with a specially crafted name and gets another user to trigger a pipeline to execute commands in the runner as that other user.

    References: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2251.json, https://hackerone.com/reports/1063511, https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2022/2xxx/CVE-2022-2251.json, https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-2251, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/27386

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 0d4137b81e70f98c801f5c47411dc06a16333d12
    Fixed -fcfe8054cce062cdfdc9a9952f6727b269797211

    Affected versions

    v15.5.1
    v15.5.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2022-2251 | CVE-DB