CVE-2014-9489

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
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: 2017-10-17 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The gollum-grit_adapter Ruby gem dependency in gollum before 3.1.1 and the gollum-lib gem dependency in gollum-lib before 4.0.1 when the string "master" is in any of the wiki documents, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via the -O or --open-files-in-pager flags.

Affected products

Gollum Project Gollum: through 3.1.0
Gollum Project Gollum-Lib: through 4.0.0
Gollum Project Grit Adapter: through 0.1.0

References

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/19
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71499
https://github.com/gollum/gollum/issues/913
https://github.com/gollum/grit_adapter/commit/4520d973c81fecfebbeacd2ef2f1849d763951c7
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/03/19
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71499
https://github.com/gollum/gollum/issues/913
https://github.com/gollum/grit_adapter/commit/4520d973c81fecfebbeacd2ef2f1849d763951c7

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