Interesting, this is my first time seeing "Gitee". It appears to be a Chinese clone of Github?
Looking at a random project, the interface pretty much a direct clone: https://gitee.com/YanceSpring/F-IM
Looking at a random project, the interface pretty much a direct clone: https://gitee.com/YanceSpring/F-IM
GitHub has been blocked multiple times by CCP for repos related to Tibet, Taiwan and Hong Kong. And there have been a few large-scale ddos attacks very openly coordinated from China.
So I guess it was just a matter of time before this would happen. I assume they will block GitHub permanently now.
See also: https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/21/china-is-building-its-gith...
See, they have a "Self Services" system under the HTTP path "/self_services", and the path to an user profile is formatted like "/username", the path to a repository is formatted like "/username/repositoryname".
So... (I think you've already guessed it)
- This is the URL to their Self Service: https://gitee.com/self_services
- Then, I registered a user named "self_services" (successfully, surprise!), and created a repository: https://gitee.com/self_services/test-repo. Yeah, that just happened.
I guess they are using a big global Routing Table instead of a staged one. Hope can get it they fixed, because it could be a hole in their security.