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vulnerability

Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2021-39913: Insertion of Sensitive Information into Log File

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Nov 4, 2021
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

Accidental logging of system root password in the migration log in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 14.2.6, all versions starting from 14.3 before 14.3.4, and all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.1 allows an attacker with local file system access to obtain system root-level privileges

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
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