CVE-2019-1387

Published: 10 December 2019

An issue was found in Git before v2.24.1, v2.23.1, v2.22.2, v2.21.1, v2.20.2, v2.19.3, v2.18.2, v2.17.3, v2.16.6, v2.15.4, and v2.14.6. Recursive clones are currently affected by a vulnerability that is caused by too-lax validation of submodule names, allowing very targeted attacks via remote code execution in recursive clones.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 8.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
git Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Released (1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.5)
	disco	Released (1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.04.1)
	eoan	Released (1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.10.1)
	precise	Does not exist
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (1:2.24.0-2)
	xenial	Released (1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.7)

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-1387
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/git-packagers/AWRBO_5gqa4
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4220-1
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