Improper Access Control Affecting libgit2/libgit2 package, versions [,0.24.6)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.72% (77th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-LIBGIT2LIBGIT2-2366297
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Mar 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Mar 2017

CVE-2016-10130  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-284  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade libgit2/libgit2 to version 0.24.6 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Access Control. The http_connect function in transports/http.c in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging clobbering of the error variable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1