CVE-2021-22553

Heap Memory exhaustion in Gerrit

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Feb 17, 2021
Updated: Sep 16, 2024
Reserved: Jan 5, 2021

Description

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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	Google

Weaknesses

CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Affected Products

Product	Versions
GerritGoogle LLC	before 2.15.22Affected before 2.16.26Affected before 3.0.16Affected before 3.1.12Affected before 3.2.7Affected before 3.3.2Affected

References

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/gerrit/issues/detail?id=13858

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