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CVE-2017-1000117

Published: 10 August 2017

A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed. Such a URL could be placed in the .gitmodules file of a malicious project, and an unsuspecting victim could be tricked into running "git clone --recurse-submodules" to trigger the vulnerability.

From the Ubuntu Security Team

Brian Neel, Joern Schneeweisz, and Jeff King discovered that Git did not properly handle host names in 'ssh://' URLs. A remote attacker could use this to construct a git repository that when accessed could run arbitrary code with the privileges of the user.

Priority

Medium

CVSS 3 base score: 8.8

Status

Package Release Status
git
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
upstream Needs triage

precise Does not exist

trusty Does not exist
(trusty was released [1:1.9.1-1ubuntu0.6])
xenial
Released (1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.2)
zesty
Released (1:2.11.0-2ubuntu0.2)