Medium
Security advisory
Lack of an access control check in the External Status Check feature allowed any authenticated user to retrieve the configuration of any External Status Check in GitLab EE starting from 14.1 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39916
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 05:53 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
Lack of an access control check in the External Status Check feature allowed any authenticated user to retrieve the configuration of any External Status Check in GitLab EE starting from 14.1 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2.
osv:CVE-2021-39916
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/343379",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/1372216"
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