CVE-2021-39938: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A vulnerable regular expression pattern in GitLab CE/EE since version 8.15 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2, allows an attacker to cause uncontrolled resource consumption leading to Denial of Service via specially crafted deploy Slash commands

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 8.15.0, before 14.3.6 (fixed in 14.3.6); from 14.4.0, before 14.4.4 (fixed in 14.4.4); from 14.5.0, before 14.5.2 (fixed in 14.5.2)

Published 2021-12-13. Last modified 2026-06-17.