CVE-2021-39899

Summary

CVECVE-2021-39899
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-10-04 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2021-10-12 14:25:00 UTC
DescriptionIn all versions of GitLab CE/EE, an attacker with physical access to a user’s machine may brute force the user’s password via the change password function. There is a rate limit in place, but the attack may still be conducted by stealing the session id from the physical compromise of the account and splitting the attack over several IP addresses and passing in the compromised session value from these various locations.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-640

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gitlab Gitlab All All All All
Application Gitlab Gitlab All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Not Found MISC gitlab.com
2021/CVE-2021-39899.json · master · GitLab.org / cves · GitLab CONFIRM gitlab.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: This vulnerability was discovered internally by the GitLab team.

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 376097 GitLab Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (gitlab- 14.3.1, 14.2.5, 14.1.7)

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