CVE-2021-39933

Summary

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.10 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. A regular expression used for handling user input (notes, comments, etc) was susceptible to catastrophic backtracking that could cause a DOS attack.

Affected Software

VendorProductVersion RangeStatus
GitLabGitLab>=12.10, <14.3.6affected
GitLabGitLab>=14.4, <14.4.4affected
GitLabGitLab>=14.5, <14.5.2affected

Weaknesses

  • Uncontrolled resource consumption in GitLab

ADP Enrichment

CVE Program Container

Additional References

References