Nginx version and vulnerabilities

Are there plans to update the bundled version of nginx in gitlab-ce omnibus or the enterprise version? It looks like there are several CVEs listed as high:

According to its Server response header, the installed version of nginx is 1.9.5 prior to 1.16.1 or 1.17.x prior to 1.17.3. It is, therefore, affected by multiple denial of service vulnerabilities :

  • A denial of service vulnerability exists in the HTTP/2 protocol stack due to improper handling of exceptional conditions. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by manipulating the window size and stream priority of a large data request, to cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2019-9511)

  • A denial of service vulnerability exists in the HTTP/2 protocol stack due to improper handling of exceptional conditions. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by creating multiple request streams and continually shuffling the priority of the streams, to cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2019-9513)

  • A denial of service vulnerability exists in the HTTP/2 protocol stack due to improper handling of exceptional conditions. An unauthenticated, remote attacker can exploit this, by sending a stream of headers with a zero length header name and zero length header value, to cause a denial of service condition. (CVE-2019-9516)

To followup, Gitlab 12.2 includes the update to nginx.

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