Directory traversal vulnerability in gitolite 3.x before 3.1, when wild card repositories and a pattern matching "../" are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary repositories and possibly perform other actions via a .. (dot dot) in a repository name.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/gitolite/K9SnQNhCQ-0/discussion
https://github.com/sitaramc/gitolite/commit/f636ce3ba3e340569b26d1e47b9d9b62dd8a3bf2
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/79130
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/55853
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/10/10/2