# CVE-2018-5955: An issue was discovered in GitStack through 2.3.10.

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Public exploit code: 2 on Exploit-DB, 2 Metasploit modules, 3 GitHub repos listed by PoC-in-GitHub
- Published: 2018-01-21 · Updated: 2024-08-05

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

An issue was discovered in GitStack through 2.3.10. User controlled input is not sufficiently filtered, allowing an unauthenticated attacker to add a user to the server via the username and password fields to the rest/user/ URI.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

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## References

- https://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/3557
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44356/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44044
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44356
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/auxiliary/admin/http/gitstack_rest.rb
- https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/windows/http/gitstack_rce.rb
- https://github.com/MikeTheHash/CVE-2018-5955
- https://github.com/QianliZLP/GitStackRCE
- https://github.com/YagamiiLight/Cerberus

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