CVE-2021-39880: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 2.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A Denial Of Service vulnerability in the apollo_upload_server Ruby gem in GitLab CE/EE all versions starting from 11.9 before 14.0.9, all versions starting from 14.1 before 14.1.4, and all versions starting from 14.2 before 14.2.2 allows an attacker to deny access to all users via specially crafted requests to the apollo_upload_server middleware.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: after 11.9.0, before 14.0.9 (fixed in 14.0.9); from 11.9.0, before 14.0.9 (fixed in 14.0.9); after 14.1.0, before 14.1.4 (fixed in 14.1.4); from 14.1.0, before 14.1.4 (fixed in 14.1.4); from 14.2.0, before 14.2.2 (fixed in 14.2.2)

Published 2021-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.