GitLab inbound email issue notification
Mar 6, 2018Jim Thavisouk

Summary
This post details a security vulnerability where the `@gitlab.com` domain used for the "create new issues via email" feature could be abused by attackers. It outlines customer remediation steps to update email aliases and whitelisting to `@incoming.gitlab.com` and GitLab's strategy to update addresses and disable old ones. This is a security hardening measure for an existing feature.
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