Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting gitpython package, versions [,3.1.32)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.14% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-GITPYTHON-5840584
  • published 13 Aug 2023
  • disclosed 11 Aug 2023
  • credit Sylvain Beucler

How to fix?

Upgrade GitPython to version 3.1.32 or higher.

Overview

GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) due to an improper fix for CVE-2022-24439, which allows insecure non-multi options in clone and clone_from.

PoC

r.clone_from('test', 'tmp', c=["protocol.ext.allow=always"])
GitCommandError: Cmd('git') failed due to: exit code(128)
cmdline: git clone -v -c protocol.ext.allow=always -- test tmp

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
9.8 critical
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    Low
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical
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Red Hat

9.8 critical