GitLab 14.0 End of Life Date
GitLab 14.0 end-of-life date, support status, and CVE risk. Data from endoflife.date and official vendor documentation.
GitLab 14.0 was released on June 21, 2021 and support ended on September 22, 2021 — a supported lifespan of 3 months, in line with the 3 months median for GitLab releases. The last patch it will ever receive is 14.0.12, published November 5, 2021 — 44 days after the published end-of-life date. It has been without security patches for 4 years and 11 months. 58 newer GitLab releases have shipped since.
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When GitLab 14.0 reaches end of life, the maintainers stop issuing security patches for this version. CVEs discovered after the EOL date are publicly disclosed on the National Vulnerability Database with no patch available. Exploit code frequently appears on GitHub within days of disclosure.
The CVE blind spot: Most vulnerability scanners check for known CVEs but do not flag the ongoing accumulation of unpatched vulnerabilities in EOL software versions. Running GitLab 14.0 past its EOL date creates a permanently growing attack surface that standard security tooling will not surface.
Migrate to a supported version or implement compensating controls — network segmentation, enhanced monitoring, restricted access — while migration is underway.