CVE-2014-4511

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 82.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-07-22 · updated 2026-06-17

Description

Gitlist before 0.5.0 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the file name in the URI of a request for a (1) blame, (2) file, or (3) stats page, as demonstrated by requests to blame/master/, master/, and stats/master/.

Affected products

Gitlist: through 0.4.0; 0.1, 0.2, 0.3

References

http://hatriot.github.io/blog/2014/06/29/gitlist-rce/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127281/Gitlist-0.4.0-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127364/Gitlist-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33929
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33990
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitlist/Hw_KdZfA4js
http://hatriot.github.io/blog/2014/06/29/gitlist-rce/
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127281/Gitlist-0.4.0-Remote-Code-Execution.html
http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/127364/Gitlist-Unauthenticated-Remote-Command-Execution.html
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33929
http://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/33990
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitlist/Hw_KdZfA4js

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