#VU58783 Resource exhaustion in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2021-39938

 

#VU58783 Resource exhaustion in Gitlab Community Edition and GitLab Enterprise Edition - CVE-2021-39938

Published: December 9, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU58783
Vulnerability risk: Low
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2021-39938
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
Gitlab Community Edition
GitLab Enterprise Edition
Software vendor:
GitLab, Inc

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to application does not properly control consumption of internal resources within deploy Slash commands. A remote authenticated attacker can trigger resource exhaustion and perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.


Remediation

Install updates from vendor's website.

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