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CVE-2013-4489 (GCVE-0-2013-4489)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-05-17 20:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 16:45
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Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2013-11-04 00:00
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