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CVE-2013-4490

• Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 42.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2014-05-13 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The SSH key upload feature (lib/gitlab_keys.rb) in gitlab-shell before 1.7.3, as used in GitLab 5.0 before 5.4.1 and 6.x before 6.2.3, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the public key.

Affected products

• GitLab: 5.0.0, 5.0.1, 5.1.0, 5.2.0, 5.3.0, 5.4.0 (+5)
• gitlab-shell: through 1.7.2; 1.0.4, 1.1.0, 1.2.0, 1.3.0, 1.4.0, 1.5.0 (+3)

References

• https://www.gitlab.com/2013/11/04/gitlab-ce-6-2-and-5-4-security-release/
• https://www.gitlab.com/2013/11/04/gitlab-ce-6-2-and-5-4-security-release/

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