Markdown still applied inside <pre> tag

Bug on gitlab.com - see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/211976

When logging a bug using the template you are instructed to run a command and paste the output into <pre> tags. The output from that command includes a line which starts with - default... which is interpreted by the markdown engine as a bullet point.

This;

Becomes;

I thought I had maybe seen this issue raised previously, but searching the 25,000+ issues I can't find it :)