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medium 6.8

CVE-2011-1572 json

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Admin Defined Commands (ADC) feature in gitolite before 1.5.9.1 allows remote attackers to execute…

published 2011-10-04 15 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2011-1573

cvss
6.8
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.9%
EPSS 2.9% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 87%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Directory traversal vulnerability in the Admin Defined Commands (ADC) feature in gitolite before 1.5.9.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via .. (dot dot) sequences in admin-defined commands.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2011-1572 updated cvss 4.6

gitolite: arbitrary command execution flaw with optional admin-defined command feature

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Exploit prediction

2.92% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 87% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

References

Sources

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