CVE-2019-19604

Published: 10 December 2019

Arbitrary command execution is possible in Git before 2.20.2, 2.21.x before 2.21.1, 2.22.x before 2.22.2, 2.23.x before 2.23.1, and 2.24.x before 2.24.1 because a "git submodule update" operation can run commands found in the .gitmodules file of a malicious repository.

Priority

CVSS 3 base score: 7.8

Status

Package	Release	Status
git Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	Upstream	Released (1:2.24.0-2)




	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver)	Not vulnerable (2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4)
	Ubuntu 16.04 ESM (Xenial Xerus)	Not vulnerable (2.7.4-0ubuntu1.6)
	Ubuntu 14.04 ESM (Trusty Tahr)	Does not exist

References

https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2019-19604
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/git-packagers/AWRBO_5gqa4
https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-4220-1
NVD
Launchpad
Debian

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CVE-2019-19604

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