CVE-2022-0741

Improper input validation in all versions of GitLab CE/EE using sendmail to send emails allowed an attacker to steal environment variables…

5.8MediumCVSS base score
1.5%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 26% of all CVEs
NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
NonePublic exploitsnone known yet

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.

Timeline

2022
23 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022
ID reserved
By GitLab
1 Apr 202237 days later
1 Apr 2022· 37 days later
Published
2024
2 Aug 20242 years later
2 Aug 2024· 2 years later
Record updated

Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.

Scores

CVSS scores of CVE-2022-0741, by who scored it
Scored by	CVSS	Score	Vector
GitLabCNA (assigner)	3.1	Medium5.8	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
NVDNVD · Modified	3.1	High7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days): 1.5% · top 26% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.8.

Affected products

GitLab · GitLab
- affected >=10.0, <14.6.5
- affected >=14.7, <14.7.4
- affected >=14.8, <14.8.2

References3

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/337601 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
https://hackerone.com/reports/1286317 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-0741.json (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

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Record last updated 2 Aug 2024, 23:40 UTC.