Directory Traversal Affecting rust-gix package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
low

Based on Debian security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.66% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN13-RUSTGIX-19534348
  • published5 Sept 2026
  • disclosed28 Aug 2026

Introduced: 28 Aug 2026

CVE-2026-82253  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Debian:13 rust-gix.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream rust-gix package and not the rust-gix package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:13 relevant fixed versions and status.

gitoxide (Rust crates gix <= 0.72.0 and gix-validate <= 0.10.0) contains a path traversal vulnerability. The submodule name validation function in gix-validate only checks the first occurrence of '..' via name.find(b".."), allowing crafted names such as 'a..b/../../../.git/' to bypass the check; additionally this validation is never invoked in production code paths. Combined with a trust inheritance flaw in Submodule::open(), where the parent repository's git_dir_trust (Trust::Full) is cloned and the ownership verification is skipped, an attacker can craft a malicious .gitmodules file so that a victim tool built on gitoxide reads arbitrary git repository configuration (including embedded credentials) with full trust, bypassing safe-directory protections. Fixed in gix 0.82.0 and gix-validate 0.11.1.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1