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Lookup for vulnerabilities affecting packages.

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    "vulnerability_id": "VCID-3zax-7j7d-f7d1",
    "summary": "Improper sanitization of branch names in GitLab Runner affecting all versions prior to 15.3.5, 15.4 prior to 15.4.4, and 15.5 prior to 15.5.2 allows a user who creates a branch with a specially crafted name and gets another user to trigger a pipeline to execute commands in the runner as that other user.",
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