CVE-2021-39946 (GCVE-0-2021-39946)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-01-18 16:52 – Updated: 2024-08-04 02:20
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Improper neutralization of user input in GitLab CE/EE versions 14.3 to 14.3.6, 14.4 to 14.4.4, and 14.5 to 14.5.2 allowed an attacker to exploit XSS by abusing the generation of the HTML code related to emojis
Severity
8.7 (High)
CWE
- Improper neutralization of input during web page generation ('cross-site scripting') in GitLab
Assigner
References
3 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/345657 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://hackerone.com/reports/1398305 | x_refsource_MISC |
| https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
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