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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2021-39931

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.11 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. Under specific condition an unauthorised project member was allowed to delete a protected branches due to a business logic error.

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1 Nov 2026, 06:22 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2021-39931

core-osv · Original source

Published 13 Dec 2021, 16:15 UTC

An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.11 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. Under specific condition an unauthorised project member was allowed to delete a protected branches due to a business logic error.

osv:CVE-2021-39931
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2021-39931",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2021-39931",
    "summary": "An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 8.11 before 14.3.6, all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.4, all versions starting from 14.5 before 14.5.2. Under specific condition an unauthorised project member was allowed to delete a protected branches due to a business logic error.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2021-39931",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "medium",
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        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N"
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          "versions": [
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            "v14.4.2-ee",
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-30T10:30:58.203599615Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39931.json",
        "https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/340445",
        "https://hackerone.com/reports/1318379"
      ],
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        "evidence": "/id"
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    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 434486,
  "published_at": "2021-12-13T16:15:09.13+00:00"
}