CVE-2022-0090: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue has been discovered affecting GitLab versions prior to 14.4.5, between 14.5.0 and 14.5.3, and between 14.6.0 and 14.6.1. GitLab is configured in a way that it doesn't ignore replacement references with git sub-commands, allowing a malicious user to spoof the contents of their commits in the UI.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: before 14.4.5 (fixed in 14.4.5); from 14.5.0, before 14.5.3 (fixed in 14.5.3); from 14.6.0, before 14.6.1 (fixed in 14.6.1)

Published 2022-01-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.