CVE-2011-1572

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2011-10-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Admin Defined Commands (ADC) feature in gitolite before 1.5.9.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via .. (dot dot) sequences in admin-defined commands.

Affected products

Gitolite: through 1.5.9; 0.50, 0.55, 0.60, 0.65, 0.70, 0.80 (+20)

References

http://groups.google.com/group/gitolite/browse_thread/thread/797a93ec26e1dcbc?pli=1
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q2/197
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q2/209
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2215
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/46473
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695568
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/65542
https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/4ce00aef84d1ff7c35f7adbbb99a6241cfda00cc
http://groups.google.com/group/gitolite/browse_thread/thread/797a93ec26e1dcbc?pli=1
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q2/197
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q2/209
http://www.debian.org/security/2011/dsa-2215

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