CVE-2012-4506
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
4.6
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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
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
- 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
CWEs
CWE-22
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.