PT-2014-2805 · Gitlab · Gitlab-Shell+1

Published 2014-05-13 · Updated 2014-05-14 · CVE-2013-4490

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

6.5

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions GitLab versions 5.0 through 5.4.1 GitLab versions 6.x through 6.2.3 gitlab-shell versions prior to 1.7.3

Description The issue allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the public key, specifically in the SSH key upload feature. This is due to a flaw in the lib/gitlab keys.rb file in gitlab-shell.

Recommendations For GitLab versions 5.0 through 5.4.1, update to version 5.4.1 or later. For GitLab versions 6.x through 6.2.3, update to version 6.2.3 or later. For gitlab-shell versions prior to 1.7.3, update to version 1.7.3 or later.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2013-4490

Affected Products

Gitlab

Gitlab-Shell

References · 5

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/gitlab_shell_exec.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/34362 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2013-4490 · Security Note
• https://gitlab.com/2013/11/04/gitlab-ce-6-2-and-5-4-security-release · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2013-4490 · Note