🛡️ CVE-2022-0741 — gitlab

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-116 OSV

8.0

CVSS Score

0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Improper input validation in all versions of GitLab CE/EE using sendmail to send emails allowed an attacker to steal environment variables via specially crafted email addresses.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached over the network, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs administrative privileges on the target. No user interaction is required. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity none, availability none.

Weakness class

CVE-2022-0741 is classified as CWE-116: Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. Output is emitted without encoding it for the context it lands in, so data is interpreted as markup or code.

Affected software

CVE-2022-0741 is recorded against 1 package.

gitlab

Timeline and source

Published on 6 March 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from OSV.

References

gitlab.com (Web)
gitlab.com (Web)
hackerone.com (Web)
nvd.nist.gov (Web)

CVE-2022-0741 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Ubuntu

Details

Severity HIGH

CVSS Score 8.0

CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE CWE-116

Public Exploit ✅ No

Source OSV

Published 2024-03-06

Updated 2026-08-12

Modified 2026-06-17

Fix URL N/A

Affected Packages

Software	From version	Fixed in
gitlab	—	—

References

WEB https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-0741.json

WEB https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/337601

WEB https://hackerone.com/reports/1286317

WEB https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-0741

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