CVE-2014-4511

high

Published 2014-07-22 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.5

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/.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-33990 remote multiple verified

Metasploit · 2014-07-07

Gitlist - Remote Command Execution (Metasploit)

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

EDB-33929 remote multiple verified

drone · 2014-06-30

Gitlist 0.4.0 - Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/http/gitlist_exec rank 600

Gitlist Unauthenticated Remote Command Execution

Source fetch failed: fetch_error — view the original via the link above.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
gitlist	gitlist	`{"endIncluding":"0.4.0"}`
gitlist	gitlist	`0.1`
gitlist	gitlist	`0.2`
gitlist	gitlist	`0.3`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.