CVE-2021-39942

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    CVE-2021-39942

    Published: 18 Jan 2022Last Modified: 27 Aug 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39942.json, https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/297492, https://hackerone.com/reports/1071861

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name:

    Purl:

    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- 3b13818e8330f68625d80d9bf5d8049c41fbe197
    Fixed -057790c613dea428aa523357c333ced5433794ee

    Affected versions

    v14.5.1-ee
    v14.5.0-ee

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
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