Add latest changes from gitlab-org/security/gitlab@16-5-stable-ee

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/gitlab/ci/components/instance_path.rb b/lib/gitlab/ci/components/instance_path.rb
index 551284d9099..df2b2a14fc6 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/ci/components/instance_path.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/ci/components/instance_path.rb
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ module Gitlab
     module Components
       class InstancePath
         include Gitlab::Utils::StrongMemoize
+        include ::Gitlab::LoopHelpers
 
         LATEST_VERSION_KEYWORD = '~latest'
 
@@ -49,11 +50,18 @@ module Gitlab
         # Given a path like "my-org/sub-group/the-project/path/to/component"
         # find the project "my-org/sub-group/the-project" by looking at all possible paths.
         def find_project_by_component_path(path)
+          return if path.start_with?('/') # exit early if path starts with `/` or it will loop forever.
+
           possible_paths = [path]
+          index = nil
+
+          loop_until(limit: 20) do
+            index = path.rindex('/') # find index of last `/` in a path
+            break unless index
 
-          while index = path.rindex('/') # find index of last `/` in a path
             possible_paths << (path = path[0..index - 1])
           end
+
           # remove shortest path as it is group
           possible_paths.pop