Medium
Security advisory
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. Using large payloads, the diff feature could be used to trigger high load time for users reviewing code changes.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39932
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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. Using large payloads, the diff feature could be used to trigger high load time for users reviewing code changes.
osv:CVE-2021-39932
Complete source record
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"modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:16.097903234Z",
"provider": "osv",
"references": [
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39932.json",
"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/217360"
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"source_id": "core-osv",
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"published_at": "2021-12-13T16:15:09.193+00:00"
}