Medium
Security advisory
In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 12.0, a lower privileged user can import users from projects that they don't have a maintainer role on and disclose email addresses of those users.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39892
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 11:19 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 12.0, a lower privileged user can import users from projects that they don't have a maintainer role on and disclose email addresses of those users.
osv:CVE-2021-39892
Complete source record
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"id": "091f35429c1512ce0bc7923a9622ceaa44ae71ad2a3855483d84e3a0092cbdab",
"url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-39892",
"method": "structured",
"payload": {
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"title": "CVE-2021-39892",
"summary": "In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 12.0, a lower privileged user can import users from projects that they don't have a maintainer role on and disclose email addresses of those users.",
"evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-39892",
"products": [],
"severity": "medium",
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"aliases": [
"BIT-gitlab-2021-39892",
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}
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],
"modified": "2026-10-20T10:53:53.425502539Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39892.json",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/542539",
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/28440"
],
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},
"related_cves": [
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"evidence": "/id"
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"security_relevant": true,
"severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
},
"source_id": "core-osv",
"document_id": 384732,
"published_at": "2022-01-18T17:15:08.613+00:00"
}