Arbitrary Code Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python-git (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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- published23 May 2026
- disclosed7 May 2026
Introduced: 7 May 2026
CVE-2026-44244 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:25.10.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python-git package and not the python-git package as distributed by Ubuntu.
GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories. Prior to version 3.1.49, GitConfigParser.set_value() passes values to Python's configparser without validating for newlines. GitPython's own _write() converts embedded newlines into indented continuation lines (e.g. \n becomes \n\t), but Git still accepts an indented [core] stanza as a section header — so the injected core.hooksPath becomes effective configuration. Any Git operation that invokes hooks (commit, merge, checkout) will then execute scripts from the attacker-controlled path. This issue has been patched in version 3.1.49.