CVE-2021-39935: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF) Vulnerability
Actively exploited. At least one CVE in this advisory is listed in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog — exploitation has been observed in the wild. Treat remediation as urgent.
GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions contain a server-side request forgery vulnerability which could allow unauthorized external users to perform Server Side Requests via the CI Lint API.
CSIRTS triage
- What
- A server-side request forgery vulnerability could allow unauthorized external users to perform server-side requests.
- Who is affected
- Deployments of GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions.
- Urgency
- Remediation is urgent due to active exploitation and critical severity.
- Action
- Upgrade to the latest version of GitLab.
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Details
Original advisory: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-39935
Exploitation outlook
EPSS (FIRST.org) estimates each CVE’s probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — here is the CSIRTS.com read on those numbers.
- Exploitation confirmedCVE-2021-39935Already exploited in the wild (CISA KEV) — the prediction phase is over. Patch now. Riskier than 98% of all scored CVEs.
Referenced CVEs
| CVE | CSIRTS overview | External |
|---|---|---|
| CVE-2021-39935 | coverage & exploitation status | NVD · CVE.org |
Recent advisories for GitLab Community and
A cluster of recent advisories against the same product widens the attack surface — attackers routinely chain freshly published CVEs on one product, so review these together.
- unknownNCSC-2026-0222 [1.00] [M/H] Vulnerabilities fixed in GitLab Enterprise Edition and Community Editionncsc-nl · 2026-07-10
- unknownNCSC-2026-0211 [1.00] [M/H] Vulnerabilities fixed in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Editionncsc-nl · 2026-06-25
- criticalexploitedCVE-2023-7028: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Improper Access Control Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2024-05-01
- criticalexploitedCVE-2021-22205: GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Vulnerabilitycisa-kev · 2021-11-03
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