{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2021-39933","details":"An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 12.10 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 regular expression used for handling user input (notes, comments, etc) was susceptible to catastrophic backtracking that could cause a DOS attack.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:50:33Z","published":"2021-12-13T16:15:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2021-39933"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2021-39933"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2021-39933"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"gitlab","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/gitlab@8.5.8+dfsg-5?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["8.4.3+dfsg-9","8.4.3+dfsg-12","8.5.8+dfsg-5"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"gitlab","binary_version":"8.5.8+dfsg-5"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2021/UBUNTU-CVE-2021-39933.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"low"}]}