Vulnerability Instance

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{
    "url": "http://public2.vulnerablecode.io/api/vulnerabilities/240442?format=api",
    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-5wbt-x41a-e7bs",
    "summary": "An attacker could cause a Prometheus denial of service in GitLab 13.7+ by sending an HTTP request with a malformed method",
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            "alias": "CVE-2021-22166"
        }
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    "severity_range_score": "7.0 - 8.9",
    "exploitability": "0.5",
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