CVE-2021-39913

4.4 MEDIUM

Accidental logging of system root password in the migration log in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 14.2.6, all versions starting from...

Published: 2021-11-05 · Last updated: 2026-06-12

Severity and scoring

CVSS: 4.4 MEDIUM
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE: CWE-532

Affected products

Vendor	Product
gitlab	gitlab

Description

Accidental logging of system root password in the migration log in all versions of GitLab CE/EE before 14.2.6, all versions starting from 14.3 before 14.3.4, and all versions starting from 14.4 before 14.4.1 allows an attacker with local file system access to obtain system root-level privileges

Source: NVD

References

[NVD]https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39913
[Vendor advisory]https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39913.json
[Vendor advisory]https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/28074
[Vendor advisory]https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39913.json
[Vendor advisory]https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/28074

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