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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-39886

Permissions rules were not applied while issues were moved between projects of the same group in GitLab versions starting with 10.6 and up to 14.1.7 allowing users to read confidential Epic references.

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1 Nov 2026, 04:47 UTC · Revision 1

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CVE-2021-39886

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Oct 2021, 14:15 UTC

Permissions rules were not applied while issues were moved between projects of the same group in GitLab versions starting with 10.6 and up to 14.1.7 allowing users to read confidential Epic references.

osv:CVE-2021-39886
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-39886",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2021-39886",
    "summary": "Permissions rules were not applied while issues were moved between projects of the same group in GitLab versions starting with 10.6 and up to 14.1.7 allowing users to read confidential Epic references.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-39886",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
    "structured": {
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      "aliases": [
        "BIT-gitlab-2021-39886",
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      "metrics": [
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          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N"
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      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:24.493314676Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 430582,
  "published_at": "2021-10-05T14:15:07.933+00:00"
}