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CVE-2012-4506

Date: October 22, 2012

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.

Language: Perl

Severity Score

Related Resources (9)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-4506
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130
https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2
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
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2012-4506

Severity Score

Weakness Type (CWE)

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

CWE-22

CVSS v3.1

Base Score:
Attack Vector (AV): NETWORK
Attack Complexity (AC): HIGH
Privileges Required (PR): LOW
User Interaction (UI): NONE
Scope (S): UNCHANGED
Confidentiality (C): LOW
Integrity (I): LOW
Availability (A): LOW

CVSS v2

Base Score:
Access Vector (AV): NETWORK
Access Complexity (AC): HIGH
Authentication (AU): SINGLE
Confidentiality (C): PARTIAL
Integrity (I): PARTIAL
Availability (A): PARTIAL
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