CVE-2021-39942

low-risk
Published 2022-01-18

A denial of service vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.0 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2, allows low-privileged users to bypass file size limits in the NPM package repository to potentially cause denial of service.

Do I need to act?

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0.20% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 4.3/10 Medium
NETWORK / LOW complexity

Affected Products (2)

Affected Vendors

Gitlab

References (6)

Vendor Advisory https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39942.json
Broken Link https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/297492
Permissions Required https://hackerone.com/reports/1071861
Vendor Advisory https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39942.json
Broken Link https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/297492
Permissions Required https://hackerone.com/reports/1071861
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low-risk
Severity 18/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 1/34 · Minimal
Exposure 7/34 · Low