Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting gitk package, versions <2.16.4-3.6.1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

Based on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server security rating.

Threat Intelligence

Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
68.52% (99th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-SLES150-GITK-2759702
  • published14 Apr 2022
  • disclosed15 Oct 2018

Introduced: 15 Oct 2018

CVE-2018-17456  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade SLES:15.0 gitk to version 2.16.4-3.6.1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream gitk package and not the gitk package as distributed by SLES. See How to fix? for SLES:15.0 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.