CVE-2021-39868: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 8.12, an authenticated low-privileged malicious user may create a project with unlimited repository size by modifying values in a project export.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 8.12.0, before 14.1.7 (fixed in 14.1.7); from 14.2.0, before 14.2.5 (fixed in 14.2.5); version 4.3.0 only

Published 2021-10-04. Last modified 2026-06-17.