CVE-2013-4490: GitLab

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 42.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The SSH key upload feature (lib/gitlab_keys.rb) in gitlab-shell before 1.7.3, as used in GitLab 5.0 before 5.4.1 and 6.x before 6.2.3, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters in the public key.

Affected products

• GitLab GitLab: version 5.0.0 only; version 5.0.1 only; version 5.1.0 only; version 5.2.0 only; version 5.3.0 only; version 5.4.0 only; …
• GitLab GitLab-Shell: up to and including 1.7.2; version 1.0.4 only; version 1.1.0 only; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.3.0 only; version 1.4.0 only; …

Published 2014-05-13. Last modified 2026-06-16.