CVE-2012-4506

high

Description

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.

References

https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion

https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/1

http://secunia.com/advisories/50896

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2012-10-22

Updated: 2025-04-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 8.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00557