Improper Input Validation Affecting git package, versions <1:2.1.4-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
95.09% (100th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN11-GIT-519836
  • published27 Jun 2018
  • disclosed12 Feb 2020

Introduced: 27 Jun 2018

CVE-2014-9390  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:11 git to version 1:2.1.4-1 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 Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:11 relevant fixed versions and status.

Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine all versions before 08-12-2014; libgit2 all versions up to 0.21.2; Egit all versions before 08-12-2014; and JGit all versions before 08-12-2014 allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.

CVSS Scores

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