CVE-2021-39942: 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…

PriorityP431medium6.5CVSS 3.1

AVNACLPRLUINSUCNINAH

EPSS

1.45%

70.1th percentile

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.

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	>= 12.0 < 14.3.6	14.3.6
gitlab	gitlab	>= 14.4 < 14.4.4	14.4.4
gitlab	gitlab	>= 14.5 < 14.5.2	14.5.2
gitlab	gitlab_ce	—	—

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.16.5MEDIUMCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvdv2.04.0MEDIUMAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P

osv6.5MEDIUM

vendor_debian4.3MEDIUM

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