All vulnerabilities

Servers and applications

CVE-2021-39899

In all versions of GitLab CE/EE, an attacker with physical access to a user’s machine may brute force the user’s password via the change password function. There is a rate limit in place, but the attack may still be conducted by stealing the session id from the physical compromise of the account and splitting the attack over several IP addresses and passing in the compromised session value from…

Severity
Medium 4.2
Published
4 Oct 2021
Last changed
17 Jun 2026
Added to UpHeron
21 Oct 2026
Fixed in
14.1.7, 14.2.5, 14.3.1
Sources
NVD

Affected software

SoftwareAffected versions
GitLabServers and applications · cpe:a:gitlab:gitlab
  • From 1.0.0 before 14.1.7
  • From 14.2 before 14.2.5
  • From 14.3 before 14.3.1

References

  • NVD https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39899
  • CVE.org https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39899