CVE-2022-2417: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 4.5. EPSS: 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Insufficient validation in GitLab CE/EE affecting all versions from 12.10 prior to 15.0.5, 15.1 prior to 15.1.4, and 15.2 prior to 15.2.1 allows an authenticated and authorised user to import a project that includes branch names which are 40 hexadecimal characters, which could be abused in supply chain attacks where a victim pinned to a specific Git commit of the project.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: from 12.10.0, before 15.0.5 (fixed in 15.0.5); from 15.1.0, before 15.1.4 (fixed in 15.1.4); version 15.2 only

Published 2022-08-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.