Vulnerability CVE-2022-2251


Published: 2023-01-17

Description:
Improper sanitization of branch names in GitLab Runner affecting all versions prior to 15.3.5, 15.4 prior to 15.4.4, and 15.5 prior to 15.5.2 allows a user who creates a branch with a specially crafted name and gets another user to trigger a pipeline to execute commands in the runner as that other user.

 References:
https://hackerone.com/reports/1063511
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cves/-/blob/master/2022/CVE-2022-2251.json
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/issues/27386

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