An issue has been discovered in GitLab affecting all versions before 15.9.8, 15.10.0 before 15.10.7, and 15.11.0 before 15.11.3. A malicious developer could use a git feature called refs/replace to smuggle content into a merge request which would not be visible during review in the UI.

Related CVEs

CVE-2023-2181

Key Information

GHSA ID

GHSA-m96m-mfqc-86mf

Published

May 12, 2023 9:30 PM

Last Modified

April 4, 2024 4:04 AM

CVSS Score

5.0 /10

Primary Ecosystem

Unknown

Primary Package

Unknown

GitHub Reviewed

✗ No

Dataset

Last updated: June 16, 2025 6:25 AM

Data from GitHub Advisory Database. This information is provided for research and educational purposes.