CVE-2021-39942 (GCVE-0-2021-39942)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-18 16:52 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:20
VLAI?
Summary
A 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.
Severity ?
4.3 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CWE
  • Uncontrolled resource consumption in GitLab
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
GitLab GitLab Affected: >=12.0, <14.3.6
Affected: >=14.4, <14.4.4
Affected: >=14.5, <14.5.2
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Credits
Thanks @0xn3va for reporting this vulnerability through our HackerOne bug bounty program
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