CVE-2024-3958 is a medium-severity spoofing and social-engineering vulnerability in GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition. A discrepancy exists between how GitLab's web application displays certain tag names and how the Git command-line interface interprets or presents them. An attacker can abuse this ambiguity to make a malicious or untrusted repository reference appear trustworthy in the web interface, increasing the likelihood that a victim will clone code they did not intend to obtain. The issue affects GitLab CE/EE before 17.0.6, 17.1 before 17.1.4, and 17.2 before 17.2.2.
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A GitLab CE/EE vulnerability that exploits ambiguous tag naming and discrepancies between web display and git CLI behavior to socially engineer users into cloning untrusted code.
UI/CLI ambiguity issue in GitLab tag naming that can be abused for social engineering to trick users into cloning untrusted code.
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