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CVE-2013-4489

18
FAUCET Score

CVE-2013-4489 describes a command injection vulnerability in the Grit gem for Ruby, specifically affecting GitLab versions 5.2 through 5.4.1 and 6.x through 6.2.3. Authenticated remote attackers could execute arbitrary commands, notably via the GitLab code search feature. With a CVSS score of 6.5, this vulnerability has a medium severity, indicating that an attacker with authentication could achieve partial confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts with low attack complexity. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code in common repositories like Metasploit or ExploitDB, nor significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
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:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
5.4.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:5.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:6.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
6.1.0CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:gitlab:gitlab:6.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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
1.41%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
69.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0141 is in the 84th percentile among its peer group of 21,974 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

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (1)

rubygemspatch availablevia ghsa
Product: gitlab-gritFixed in: 2.6.1

Vendor Advisories (1)

rubygemsGHSA-95xq-v4m2-fq3rmedium

GitLab Grit Gem for Ruby contains a flaw allowing arbitrary commands to be executed

May 17, 2022

References

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