CVE-2021-39909

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-39909
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2021-11-05 00:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-06 19:55:00 UTC
DescriptionLack of email address ownership verification in the CODEOWNERS feature in all versions of GitLab EE starting from 11.3 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 to bypass CODEOWNERS Merge Request approval requirement under rare circumstances

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-347

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Gitlab Gitlab All All All All
Application Gitlab Gitlab 14.4.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
HackerOne MISC hackerone.com
2021/CVE-2021-39909.json · master · GitLab.org / cves · GitLab CONFIRM gitlab.com
Not Found MISC 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: Thanks vaib25vicky for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 376040 GitLab Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (gitlab release-14.2.6,14.3.4,14.4.1)
  • 690230 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for gitlab (33557582-3958-11ec-90ba-001b217b3468)

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