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Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting git package, versions <2.19.1-r0

Severity

 Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Mature
    EPSS
    27.27% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE316-GIT-2842579
  • published 6 Oct 2018
  • disclosed 6 Oct 2018
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Introduced: 6 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17456 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-88 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Alpine:3.16 git to version 2.19.1-r0 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream git package and not the git package as distributed by Alpine. See How to fix? for Alpine:3.16 relevant fixed versions and status.

Git before 2.14.5, 2.15.x before 2.15.3, 2.16.x before 2.16.5, 2.17.x before 2.17.2, 2.18.x before 2.18.1, and 2.19.x before 2.19.1 allows remote code execution during processing of a recursive "git clone" of a superproject if a .gitmodules file has a URL field beginning with a '-' character.

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