CVE intelligence and bounded remediation
CVE-2021-39927 — Gitlab Gitlab security vulnerability
Server side request forgery protections in GitLab CE/EE versions between 8.4 and 14.4.4, between 14.5.0 and 14.5.2, and between 14.6.0 and 14.6.1 would fail to protect against attacks sending requests to localhost on port 80 or 443 if GitLab was configured to run on a port other than 80 or 443
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS
- 4.3 (3.1)
- Published
- 2022-01-18
- CISA KEV
- Not currently listed
- Ecosystem
- software/application
- Weaknesses
- CWE-918
Affected products
- gitlab / gitlab
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Matched remediation archetype
Server-side request forgery and unintended proxying
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Check exposure
- Inventory server-side URL fetchers, webhooks, importers, previews, redirects, proxies, and protocol handlers reachable from untrusted input.
- Map egress paths to internal services, metadata endpoints, loopback, private address space, and privileged control planes.
- Review DNS resolution, redirect, proxy, credential-forwarding, and URL parsing behavior without requesting sensitive targets.
Remediate safely
- Replace arbitrary destinations with named integrations or a strict allowlist of schemes, hosts, ports, and paths.
- Resolve and validate every destination and redirect hop, then enforce egress policy independently of application checks.
- Remove ambient credentials and sensitive headers from fetchers; apply response size, time, and content limits.
Authoritative sources
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