CVE-2022-3031 — An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15.1.6, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.4, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.2. It may be possible for an attacker to guess a user's password by brute force by sending crafted re

01What is this vulnerability?

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions before 15.1.6, all versions starting from 15.2 before 15.2.4, all versions starting from 15.3 before 15.3.2. It may be possible for an attacker to guess a user's password by brute force by sending crafted requests to a specific endpoint, even if the victim user has 2FA enabled on their account.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	>=15.3, <15.3.2, >=15.2, <15.2.4, >=0.0, <15.1.6

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2022-10-17T00:00:00.000Z
• Last modified: 2025-05-13T16:20:42.728Z

09References

• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/340395
• gitlab.com — https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-3031.json