CVE-2021-22553 is a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Google Gerrit servers, where repeated Git operations can lead to heap memory exhaustion due to unexpired and undisposed Jetty sessions. This high-severity vulnerability (CVSS 7.5) has a low attack complexity and requires no user interaction, allowing unauthenticated attackers to cause a complete loss of availability. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.15.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:gerrit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.16.0, < 2.16.26CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:gerrit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.0.0, < 3.0.16CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:gerrit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.1.0, < 3.1.12CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:gerrit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.2.0, < 3.2.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:google:gerrit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.