CVE-2021-22553
MEDIUMGerrit < 2.15.22 - Denial of Service via Jetty Session Accumulation
Title source: llmDescription
Any git operation is passed through Jetty and a session is created. No expiry is set for the session and Jetty does not automatically dispose of the session. Over multiple git actions, this can lead to a heap memory exhaustion for Gerrit servers. We recommend upgrading Gerrit to any of the versions listed above.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=13858
Scores
CVSS v3
6.5
EPSS
0.0036
EPSS Percentile
27.2%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-772
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (1)
google/gerrit
< 2.15.22
Published
Feb 17, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026