CVE-2012-4506

Directory traversal vulnerability in gitolite 3.x before 3.1, when wild card repositories and a pattern matching "../" are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary repositories and possibly perform other actions via a .. (dot dot) in a repository name.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.6 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2012-10-22

Last modified

2024-08-06

Weaknesses

CWE-22

Affected products

• Gitolite (Gitolite)
• Gitolite (Sitaram Chamarty)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/50896
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/2
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130
• https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion