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CVE-2013-4490

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4490 describes a critical command injection vulnerability in GitLab and gitlab-shell, specifically within the SSH key upload feature. Authenticated attackers could execute arbitrary commands by injecting shell metacharacters into their public SSH keys. This vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 6.5, indicating a high severity with low attack complexity and potential for full compromise (confidentiality, integrity, availability). While not on the KEV catalog, a Metasploit module exists for exploitation, and its EPSS score suggests a higher-than-average likelihood of exploitation despite minimal community discussion or media coverage.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
5.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:5.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.0.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:5.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:5.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:5.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.3.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:5.3.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

6.5MEDIUM

AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
PARTIAL
Integrity Impact
PARTIAL
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
NETWORK
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
SINGLE
Exploitability Score
8.0
Impact Score
6.4
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
42.14%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
98.5%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-25
Model: v2026.06.15
Metasploit: Gitlab-shell Code Execution · Nov 4, 2013
ExploitDB: EDB-34362 · Aug 19, 2014
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.4214 is in the 100th percentile among its peer group of 21,951 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

gitlab.com / 2013/11/04/gitlab-ce-6-2-and-5-4-security-release
PatchVendor Advisory