CVE-2021-39942

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Summary

CVECVE-2021-39942
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-01-18 17:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-01-25 16:55:00 UTC
DescriptionA denial of service vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.0 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 low-privileged users to bypass file size limits in the NPM package repository to potentially cause denial of service.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-400

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-2021-39942.json · master · GitLab.org / cves · GitLab CONFIRM gitlab.com
HackerOne MISC hackerone.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 @0xn3va for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 379226 GitLab Multiple Security Vulnerabilities (gitlab- 14.6.2, 14.5.3, 14.4.5)
  • 690770 Free Berkeley Software Distribution (FreeBSD) Security Update for gitlab (43f84437-73ab-11ec-a587-001b217b3468)
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