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Security Advisories: GSA_kwCzR0hTQS02dnZjLWMybTMtY2pmM84AAgWm

JGit Improper Input Validation vulnerability

Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine; libgit2; Egit; and JGit allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.

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Source: GitHub Advisory Database
Origin: Unspecified
Severity: Critical
Classification: General
Published: about 2 years ago
Updated: over 1 year ago

CVSS Score: 9.8
CVSS vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Identifiers: GHSA-6vvc-c2m3-cjf3, CVE-2014-9390
References:

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9390
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/928429c5c96a701bcbcafacb2421a82602b36915
• https://github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced
• https://libgit2.org/security/
• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769667
• http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1853266
• http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-and-221-and.html
• http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew
• http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204147
• https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.jgit/releases/3.5.3
• https://web.archive.org/web/20211204220400/https://securitytracker.com/id?1031404
• https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-6vvc-c2m3-cjf3

Repository: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2
Blast Radius: 38.6

Affected Packages