CVE-2021-39908

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

In all versions of GitLab CE/EE starting from 0.8.0 before 14.2.6, all versions starting from 14.3 before 14.3.4, and all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.1 certain Unicode characters can be abused to commit malicious code into projects without being noticed in merge request or source code viewer UI.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.5/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Weakness enumeration

CWE-94

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Apr 1, 2022
Last modified
Jun 17, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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