Summary
GitHub Community and Enterprise Editions that utilize the ability to upload images through GitLab Workhorse are vulnerable to remote code execution. Workhorse passes image file extensions through ExifTool, which improperly validates the image files.
- Vendor
- GitLab
- Product
- Community and Enterprise Editions
- Added to KEV
- Nov 3, 2021
- Remediation due
- Nov 17, 2021 (US federal deadline)
- Ransomware use
- Known
- Weakness
- CWE-20, CWE-95
- EPSS
- 99.7% as of Nov 12
In the news
- No Asia-Pacific article names this CVE yet.
Linked
Actors named alongside it:
none
Incidents exploiting it:
- none recorded
References