CVE-2021-39942: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A denial of service vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.0 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 low-privileged users to bypass file size limits in the NPM package repository to potentially cause denial of service.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 12.0, before 14.3.6 (fixed in 14.3.6); from 14.4, before 14.4.4 (fixed in 14.4.4); from 14.5, before 14.5.2 (fixed in 14.5.2)

Published 2022-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.