CVE-2021-39909 (GCVE-0-2021-39909)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-11-04 23:03 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:20
VLAI?
Summary
Lack 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
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N
CWE
  • Unverified ownership in GitLab
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: >=11.3, <14.2.6
Affected: >=14.3, <14.3.4
Affected: >=14.4, <14.4.1
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Credits
Thanks vaib25vicky for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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