CVE-2013-4490

mediumpriority · attend · 51EPSS 0.421 · 99 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

2 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

42.1% (99th) EPSS

CVSS 6.5 · medium

Is it mine?

22 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.5

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 6.4

v2.06.5mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USLLM-inferred

exploits (2)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/multi/http/gitlab_shell_execGitlab-shell Code Executionweaponized · metasploit
EDB-34362Gitlab-shell - Code Execution (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db

affected products (22)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
gitlab gitlab= 5.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 5.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 5.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 5.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 5.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 5.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 6.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 6.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 6.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 6.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab= 6.2.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab-shell≤ 1.7.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab-shell= 1.0.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab-shell= 1.1.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab-shell= 1.2.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab-shell= 1.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab-shell= 1.4.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab-shell= 1.5.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
gitlab gitlab-shell= 1.6.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab-shell:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2014-05-13modified 2026-06-16

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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