CVE-2018-19486

Published: 23 November 2018

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 9.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
git Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4)
	cosmic	Released (1:2.19.1-1ubuntu1.1)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist (trusty was not-affected [code not present])
	upstream	Released (1:2.19.2-1)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19486
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3829-1
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