Path traversal, to RCE
Program: Gitlab
Bug Type: path traversal
Bounty: 12000
Date: 2019-11-09
path-traversal
violation-of-secure-design-principal
Summary
The researcher found a path traversal vulnerability in the Gitlab package registry API that allows an attacker to write to any path writable by git user, potentially allowing an attacker to write to authorized_keys with their public key and get a ssh shell.