National Cyber Awareness System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2012-4548

Overview

Argument injection vulnerability in syntax-highlighting.sh in cgit 9.0.3 and earlier allows remote authenticated users with permissions to add files to execute arbitrary commands via the --plug-in argument to the highlight command.

Description

Per http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/88.html'CWE-88: Argument Injection or Modification'

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: MISC

Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870713

Hyperlink:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=870713

External Source: XF

Name: cgit-syntaxhighlighting-command-exec(79665)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/79665

External Source: BID

Name: 56315

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/56315

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20121028 Re: CVE Request: cgit command injection

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/28/2

External Source: MLIST

Name: [oss-security] 20121027 CVE Request: cgit command injection

Hyperlink:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/28/1

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 51222

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/51222

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 51167

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/51167

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 50734

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/50734

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1461

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00004.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1460

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-11/msg00003.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1422

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00022.html

External Source: SUSE

Name: openSUSE-SU-2012:1421

Hyperlink:http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-10/msg00021.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=7ea35f9f8ecf61ab42be9947aae1176ab6e089bd

Hyperlink:http://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/commit/?id=7ea35f9f8ecf61ab42be9947aae1176ab6e089bd