CVEvulnerability
CVE-2012-4506
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-10-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:H/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22
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.
Affected configurations
• gitolite gitolite 3.0
• gitolite gitolite 3.02
• gitolite gitolite 3.03
• gitolite gitolite 3.04
• sitaram chamarty gitolite 3.01
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness
References
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50896 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2 github.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion groups.google.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/50896 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/1 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/2 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853 www.securityfocus.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2 github.com
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion groups.google.com