diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 925740e5d985baa0f1df3984af84ba1f0181a747..0e6e2505ec6be7fb6d72b5af1e9c1a95137c7ac3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
 v 8.8.0 (unreleased)
   - Project#open_branches has been cleaned up and no longer loads entire records into memory.
   - Make build status canceled if any of the jobs was canceled and none failed
+  - Sanitize repo paths in new project error message
   - Remove future dates from contribution calendar graph.
   - Support e-mail notifications for comments on project snippets
   - Use ActionDispatch Remote IP for Akismet checking
diff --git a/app/helpers/projects_helper.rb b/app/helpers/projects_helper.rb
index 3d5e61d2c18706cc51718d2412450edf20b99f1d..3720b0085e5d8297ba1e34b8bfbb84b165bdb3c3 100644
--- a/app/helpers/projects_helper.rb
+++ b/app/helpers/projects_helper.rb
@@ -341,4 +341,10 @@ module ProjectsHelper
       )
     end
   end
+
+  def sanitize_repo_path(message)
+    return '' unless message.present?
+
+    message.strip.gsub(Gitlab.config.gitlab_shell.repos_path.chomp('/'), "[REPOS PATH]")
+  end
 end
diff --git a/app/views/projects/imports/new.html.haml b/app/views/projects/imports/new.html.haml
index 6027fb23360ffb3904e81f42112442b0438ec6fb..a8a8caf728036728c601804cad75f5a6e5f9b80f 100644
--- a/app/views/projects/imports/new.html.haml
+++ b/app/views/projects/imports/new.html.haml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     .panel-body
       %pre
         :preserve
-          #{@project.import_error.try(:strip)}
+          #{sanitize_repo_path(@project.import_error)}
 
 = form_for @project, url: namespace_project_import_path(@project.namespace, @project), method: :post, html: { class: 'form-horizontal' } do |f|
   = render "shared/import_form", f: f
diff --git a/spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb b/spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb
index 62389188d2c8add2479e86b6bf0f1c13017776d5..29bcb8c58924de7bc75ef972585d9a7e2ff1ed90 100644
--- a/spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/helpers/projects_helper_spec.rb
@@ -131,4 +131,13 @@ describe ProjectsHelper do
       end
     end
   end
+
+  describe '#sanitized_import_error' do
+    it 'removes the repo path' do
+      repo = File.join(Gitlab.config.gitlab_shell.repos_path, '/namespace/test.git')
+      import_error = "Could not clone #{repo}\n"
+
+      expect(sanitize_repo_path(import_error)).to eq('Could not clone [REPOS PATH]/namespace/test.git')
+    end
+  end
 end