Gerrit code review tool taken offline after suspected admin account compromise
Gerrit has been taken offline after malicious activity was flagged on the open source code collaboration platform.
The web-based Git code review service was disabled two hours after project maintainers were alerted to a suspected security breach on Tuesday morning (October 20).
“We believe an admin account in Gerrit was compromised allowing an attacker to escalate privileges within Gerrit,” said Clark Boylan in a service announcement issued later that day.
“Around 02:00 UTC October 20 suspicious review activity was noticed, and we were made aware of it shortly afterwards.
“The involved account was disabled and removed from privileged Gerrit groups. After further investigation we decided that we needed to stop the service, this happened at about 04:00 UTC.”
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