diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 08a9a1daa2..0488999511 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ v 7.7.0
   - Show user SSH keys in admin area
   - Developer can push to protected branches option
   - Set project path instead of project name in create form
+  - Block Git HTTP access after 10 failed authentication attempts
   -
   -
   - Updates to the messages returned by API (sponsored by O'Reilly Media)
diff --git a/Gemfile.lock b/Gemfile.lock
index c2513712b4..e36c2603d9 100644
--- a/Gemfile.lock
+++ b/Gemfile.lock
@@ -366,7 +366,7 @@ GEM
     rack (1.5.2)
     rack-accept (0.4.5)
       rack (>= 0.4)
-    rack-attack (2.3.0)
+    rack-attack (4.2.0)
       rack
     rack-cors (0.2.9)
     rack-mini-profiler (0.9.0)
diff --git a/config/gitlab.yml.example b/config/gitlab.yml.example
index 7b4c180fcc..5d801b9ae5 100644
--- a/config/gitlab.yml.example
+++ b/config/gitlab.yml.example
@@ -298,6 +298,20 @@ production: &base
     #   ![Company Logo](http://www.companydomain.com/logo.png)
     #   [Learn more about CompanyName](http://www.companydomain.com/)
 
+  rack_attack:
+    git_basic_auth:
+      # Whitelist requests from 127.0.0.1 for web proxies (NGINX/Apache) with incorrect headers
+      # ip_whitelist: ["127.0.0.1"]
+      #
+      # Limit the number of Git HTTP authentication attempts per IP
+      # maxretry: 10
+      #
+      # Reset the auth attempt counter per IP after 60 seconds
+      # findtime: 60
+      #
+      # Ban an IP for one hour (3600s) after too many auth attempts
+      # bantime: 3600
+
 development:
   <<: *base
 
diff --git a/config/initializers/1_settings.rb b/config/initializers/1_settings.rb
index 27bb83784b..c744577d51 100644
--- a/config/initializers/1_settings.rb
+++ b/config/initializers/1_settings.rb
@@ -171,6 +171,16 @@ Settings.satellites['timeout'] ||= 30
 #
 Settings['extra'] ||= Settingslogic.new({})
 
+#
+# Rack::Attack settings
+#
+Settings['rack_attack'] ||= Settingslogic.new({})
+Settings.rack_attack['git_basic_auth'] ||= Settingslogic.new({})
+Settings.rack_attack.git_basic_auth['ip_whitelist'] ||= %w{127.0.0.1}
+Settings.rack_attack.git_basic_auth['maxretry'] ||= 10
+Settings.rack_attack.git_basic_auth['findtime'] ||= 1.minute
+Settings.rack_attack.git_basic_auth['bantime'] ||= 1.hour
+
 #
 # Testing settings
 #
diff --git a/config/initializers/rack_attack_git_basic_auth.rb b/config/initializers/rack_attack_git_basic_auth.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..bbbfed6832
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/rack_attack_git_basic_auth.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+unless Rails.env.test?
+  # Tell the Rack::Attack Rack middleware to maintain an IP blacklist. We will
+  # update the blacklist from Grack::Auth#authenticate_user.
+  Rack::Attack.blacklist('Git HTTP Basic Auth') do |req|
+    Rack::Attack::Allow2Ban.filter(req.ip, Gitlab.config.rack_attack.git_basic_auth) do
+      # This block only gets run if the IP was not already banned.
+      # Return false, meaning that we do not see anything wrong with the
+      # request at this time
+      false
+    end
+  end
+end
diff --git a/config/initializers/redis-store-fix-expiry.rb b/config/initializers/redis-store-fix-expiry.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fce0a13533
--- /dev/null
+++ b/config/initializers/redis-store-fix-expiry.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+# Monkey-patch Redis::Store to make 'setex' and 'expire' work with namespacing
+
+module Gitlab
+  class Redis
+    class Store
+      module Namespace
+        # Redis::Store#setex in redis-store 1.1.4 does not respect namespaces;
+        # this new method does.
+        def setex(key, expires_in, value, options=nil)
+          namespace(key) { |key| super(key, expires_in, value) }
+        end
+
+        # Redis::Store#expire in redis-store 1.1.4 does not respect namespaces;
+        # this new method does.
+        def expire(key, expires_in)
+          namespace(key) { |key| super(key, expires_in) }
+        end
+
+        private
+
+        # Our new definitions of #setex and #expire above assume that the
+        # #namespace method exists. Because we cannot be sure of that, we
+        # re-implement the #namespace method from Redis::Store::Namespace so
+        # that it is available for all Redis::Store instances, whether they use
+        # namespacing or not.
+        #
+        # Based on lib/redis/store/namespace.rb L49-51 (redis-store 1.1.4)
+        def namespace(key)
+          if @namespace
+            yield interpolate(key)
+          else
+            # This Redis::Store instance does not use a namespace so we should
+            # just pass through the key.
+            yield key
+          end
+        end
+      end
+    end
+  end
+end
+
+Redis::Store.class_eval do
+  include Gitlab::Redis::Store::Namespace
+end
diff --git a/lib/gitlab/backend/grack_auth.rb b/lib/gitlab/backend/grack_auth.rb
index 762639414e..1f71906bc8 100644
--- a/lib/gitlab/backend/grack_auth.rb
+++ b/lib/gitlab/backend/grack_auth.rb
@@ -72,8 +72,26 @@ module Grack
     end
 
     def authenticate_user(login, password)
-      auth = Gitlab::Auth.new
-      auth.find(login, password)
+      user = Gitlab::Auth.new.find(login, password)
+      return user if user.present?
+
+      # At this point, we know the credentials were wrong. We let Rack::Attack
+      # know there was a failed authentication attempt from this IP. This
+      # information is stored in the Rails cache (Redis) and will be used by
+      # the Rack::Attack middleware to decide whether to block requests from
+      # this IP.
+      config = Gitlab.config.rack_attack.git_basic_auth
+      Rack::Attack::Allow2Ban.filter(@request.ip, config) do
+        # Unless the IP is whitelisted, return true so that Allow2Ban
+        # increments the counter (stored in Rails.cache) for the IP
+        if config.ip_whitelist.include?(@request.ip)
+          false
+        else
+          true
+        end
+      end
+
+      nil # No user was found
     end
 
     def authorized_request?