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Security advisory
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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- Affected versions
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- Fixed versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2021-39931
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 06:22 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
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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"references": [
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"https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/340445",
"https://hackerone.com/reports/1318379"
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