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CVE-2021-39893 (GCVE-0-2021-39893)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-05 12:18 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:20
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Summary
A potential DOS vulnerability was discovered in GitLab starting with version 9.1 that allowed parsing files without authorisation.
CWE
  • Uncontrolled resource consumption in GitLab
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
GitLab GitLab Affected: >=9.1, <14.1.7
Affected: >=14.2, <14.2.5
Affected: >=14.3, <14.3.1
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