CVE-2014-4511: Gitlist

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 82.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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/.

Affected products

  • Gitlist Gitlist: up to and including 0.4.0; version 0.1 only; version 0.2 only; version 0.3 only

Published 2014-07-22. Last modified 2026-06-17.