CVE-2021-39894
Published: 05 October 2021
Summary
CVE-2021-39894 is a medium-severity SSRF (CWE-918) vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab. Its CVSS base score is 5.4 (Medium).
Operationally, ranked at the 42.6th percentile by exploit likelihood (below the median); it is not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.
EU & UK References
- 🇪🇺 ENISA EUVD: EUVD-2021-26250
Vulnerability details
In all versions of GitLab CE/EE since version 8.0, a DNS rebinding vulnerability exists in Fogbugz importer which may be used by attackers to exploit Server Side Request Forgery attacks.
- CWE(s)
Related Threats
No named actor attribution yet. ATT&CK technique mapping in progress for this CVE.
Affected Assets
Mitigating Controls
Likely Mitigating Controls AI
Per-CVE control mapping for this CVE has not run yet; the list below is derived from the weakness types (CWEs) cited in the NVD entry.
Penetration testing attempts server-side requests to internal resources, identifying SSRF weaknesses for remediation.
Outbound connections to external resources can be monitored and limited at the boundary, reducing SSRF impact.
Validates server-side URLs and resource references to block SSRF attempts.
Detects server-side request forgery through monitoring of unexpected outbound connections.