CVE-2021-39908
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2022-04-01 22:17
Modified
2024-08-04 02:20
Severity ?
6.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
Summary
In all versions of GitLab CE/EE starting from 0.8.0 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 certain Unicode characters can be abused to commit malicious code into projects without being noticed in merge request or source code viewer UI.
References
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39908.jsonVendor Advisory
cve@gitlab.comhttps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/337193Broken Link
cve@gitlab.comhttps://hackerone.com/reports/1280077Permissions Required, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
GitLabGitLab
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