CVE-2013-4489 GitLab Grit Gem for Ruby contains a flaw allowing arbitrary commands to be executed

What is CVE-2013-4489?

CVE-2013-4489 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in Gitlab Gitlab, published on 17 May 2014. Any signed-in user can exploit it over the network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The Grit gem for Ruby, as used in GitLab 5.2 before 5.4.1 and 6.x before 6.2.3, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands, as demonstrated by the search box for the GitLab code search feature.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2013-4489?

2 open source packages ship an affected version, including gitlab-grit. It affects 1 product.

Products include Gitlab Gitlab.

How do I fix CVE-2013-4489?

Upgrade gitlab-grit to 2.6.1 or later.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2013-4489 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2013-4489 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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• CVE-2021-22205 GitLab Community and Enterprise Editions Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 10.0
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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-95xq-v4m2-fq3r.