CVE-2012-4506

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2012-10-22 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-22

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 and possibly perform other actions via a .. (dot dot) in a repository name.

Affected products

Gitolite: 3.0, 3.02, 3.03, 3.04
Sitaram Chamarty Gitolite: 3.01

References

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
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130
https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion
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
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130

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