CVE-2021-39896

published 2021-10-04

CVE-2021-39896: In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 8.0, when an admin uses the impersonate feature twice and stops impersonating, the admin may be logged in as the…

Priority P4 12 low 3.8 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR H UI N S U C L I L A N

In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 8.0, when an admin uses the impersonate feature twice and stops impersonating, the admin may be logged in as the second user they impersonated, which may lead to repudiation issues.

Affected

9 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
debian	gitlab	< gitlab 15.10.8+ds1-2 (sid)	gitlab 15.10.8+ds1-2 (sid)
gitlab	gitlab	—	—
gitlab	gitlab	—	—
gitlab	gitlab	—	—
gitlab	gitlab	—	—
gitlab	gitlab	>= 14.2 < 14.2.5	14.2.5
gitlab	gitlab	>= 14.3 < 14.3.1	14.3.1
gitlab	gitlab	>= 8.0.0 < 14.1.7	14.1.7
gitlab	gitlab_ce	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 3.8 LOW CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

nvd v2.0 5.5 MEDIUM AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

osv 3.8 LOW

vendor_debian 3.8 LOW

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