Special characters in passwords cause password mismatch errors
Created by: todd-a-jacobs
When creating a password in Gitlab Cloud, the password dialog accepts long passwords (tested with up to 32 characters) and special characters. However, when you try to authenticate with the password, one gets a password mismatch error.
The following special characters were tested in combination =\{}&>- but not separately, so I don't know which specific characters cause the problem. The backslash is always a prime suspect, but it could be any of them,.
Expected behavior would be one or more of:
- A defined password policy.
- Password input validation.
- Escaping of special characters.