An issue has been discovered in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions starting from 1.2 before 15.10.8, all versions starting from 15.11 before 15.11.7, all versions starting from 16.0 before 16.0.2. An issue was found that allows someone to abuse a discrepancy between the Web application display and the git command line interface to social engineer victims into cloning non-trusted code.

References

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-2013
• https://hackerone.com/reports/1940441
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2023/CVE-2023-2013.json
• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/406844