vulnerability

Gitlab Gitlab: CVE-2021-39938: Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
Dec 13, 2021
Added
Apr 22, 2025
Modified
Mar 25, 2026

Description

A vulnerable regular expression pattern in GitLab CE/EE since version 8.15 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 an attacker to cause uncontrolled resource consumption leading to Denial of Service via specially crafted deploy Slash commands

Solution

gitlab-gitlab-upgrade-latest
Title
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