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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-39881

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.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:34 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-39881

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Oct 2021, 14:15 UTC

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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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-39881",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2021-39881",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-39881",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "low",
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      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:39.288310014Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39881.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/26695",
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/494530"
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  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435125,
  "published_at": "2021-10-05T14:15:07.883+00:00"
}