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CVE-2021-39896

16
FAUCET Score

CVE-2021-39896 is a low-severity vulnerability affecting all versions of GitLab CE/EE since 8.0. An administrator using the impersonate feature twice and then stopping impersonation could inadvertently log in as the second impersonated user, leading to repudiation issues. The attack requires high privileges (admin access), has low attack complexity, and results in limited confidentiality and integrity impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 8.0.0, < 14.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 8.0.0, < 14.1.7CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 14.2, < 14.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*
>= 14.2, < 14.2.5CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:enterprise:*:*:*
>= 14.3, < 14.3.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:community:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

3.8LOW

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.2
Impact Score
2.5
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.62%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
46.0%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-28
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0062 is in the 65th percentile among its peer group of 709 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.0 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

gitlab.com / gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2021/CVE-2021-39896.json
Vendor Advisory
gitlab.com / gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/339362
Broken Link