Researcher Publishes GitLab RCE PoC Letting Authenticated Users Run Commands as Git

Security researcher Yuhang Wu at depthfirst has published a working proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit that executes commands as git on an unpatched self-managed GitLab 18.11.3 server. An ordinary authenticated user triggers it by committing…
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