Low
Security advisory
In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 7.7, the application may let a malicious user create an OAuth client application with arbitrary scope names which may allow the malicious user to trick unsuspecting users to authorize the malicious client application using the spoofed scope name and description.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39881
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:34 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 7.7, the application may let a malicious user create an OAuth client application with arbitrary scope names which may allow the malicious user to trick unsuspecting users to authorize the malicious client application using the spoofed scope name and description.
osv:CVE-2021-39881
Complete source record
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"references": [
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"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/26695",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/494530"
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