01 Record
CVE-2012-4506
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: redhat
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.06% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.2% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2012-10-22 23:00Z14 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-06 20:35Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2012-08-21
- Assigning CNA
- redhat
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-22Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')Base
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 4d0010eca95e09cccd11025c7db86e44b4b00152ef861f015bd2b753b3046fef
05 Affected products
06 References
- groups.google.comhttps://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion
- www.securityfocus.com55853http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853
- github.comhttps://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20121009 CVE Request: gitolite path traversal vulnerabilityhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/1
- secunia.com50896http://secunia.com/advisories/50896
- www.openwall.com[oss-security] 20121009 Re: CVE Request: gitolite path traversal vulnerabilityhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/2
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.comgitolite-security-bypass(79130)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130