UBUNTU-CVE-2021-22242

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-22242
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-22242.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-22242
Upstream
Published
2021-08-25T19:15:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:50:07Z
Severity
  • 5.4 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • 8.7 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Insufficient input sanitization in Mermaid markdown in GitLab CE/EE version 11.4 and up allows an attacker to exploit a stored cross-site scripting vulnerability via a specially-crafted markdown

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / gitlab

Package

Name
gitlab
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/gitlab@8.5.8+dfsg-5?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

8.*

8.4.3+dfsg-9
8.4.3+dfsg-12
8.5.8+dfsg-5

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "8.5.8+dfsg-5",
            "binary_name": "gitlab"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-22242.json"