PT-2012-5448 · Gitolite · Gitolite

Eitan Adler · Published 2012-10-22 · Updated 2019-09-09 · CVE-2012-4506

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions gitolite versions 3.0 through 3.1

Description A directory traversal issue exists when wild card repositories and a pattern matching "../" are enabled, allowing remote authenticated users to create arbitrary repositories and possibly perform other actions via a .. (dot dot) in a repository name.

Recommendations For gitolite versions 3.0 through 3.1, update to version 3.1 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Path traversal

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-22

Related Identifiers

CVE-2012-4506

Affected Products

Gitolite

References · 8

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4506 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/50896 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/55853 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/2 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/1 · Note
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion · Note