Directory traversal vulnerability in gitolite 3.x before 3.1, when wild card repositories and a pattern matching "../" are enabled, allows…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.1% · top 19% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)

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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 4.6.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-22 (opens in a new tab)

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• 55853 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
• https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20121009 CVE Request: gitolite path traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• 50896 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20121009 Re: CVE Request: gitolite path traversal vulnerability (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• gitolite-security-bypass(79130) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Record last updated 6 Aug 2024, 20:35 UTC.