CVE-2021-39944: GitLab

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 11.0 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. A permissions validation flaw allowed group members with a developer role to elevate their privilege to a maintainer on projects they import

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 11.0.0, 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.