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CVE-2021-39940

Date: December 13, 2021

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 13.2 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. GitLab Maven Package registry is vulnerable to a regular expression denial of service when a specifically crafted string is sent.

Severity Score

Related Resources (6)

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39940.json
https://hackerone.com/reports/997961
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39940
https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2021-39940
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/263116
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2021-39940

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity

CWE-1333

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): LOW
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): HIGH

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): LOW
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): NONE
Integrity (I): NONE
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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