Vulnerability · Published Nov 4, 2021 · Assigned by GitLab

CVE-2021-39913

Medium 4.4

In plain English

A medium-severity security flaw in GitLab from GitLab. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 22% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.3%top 78.3% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Accidental logging of system root password in the migration log in all versions of GitLab CE/EE 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 with local file system access to obtain system root-level privileges

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
GitLab	GitLab	<14.2.6>=14.3, <14.3.4>=14.4, <14.4.1

References

https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/28074 x_refsource_MISC
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39913.json x_refsource_CONFIRM