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CVE-2021-39933
MEDIUM · CVSS 4.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2021-12-13T16:15:09.250 · Last modified 2026-06-17T04:04:27.160

Summary

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.10 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. A regular expression used for handling user input (notes, comments, etc) was susceptible to catastrophic backtracking that could cause a DOS attack.

Affected products

gitlab — gitlab

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References

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