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CVE-2020-12278

Published: 27 April 2020

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. path.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS Alternate Data Streams. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1352.

Priority

Medium

Cvss 3 Severity Score

9.8

Score breakdown

Status

Package Release Status
libgit2
Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian
bionic
Released (0.26.0+dfsg.1-1.1ubuntu0.2+esm1)
Available with Ubuntu Pro
eoan Ignored
(end of life)
focal Not vulnerable
(0.28.4+dfsg.1-2)
groovy Ignored
(end of life)
hirsute Ignored
(end of life)
impish Ignored
(end of life)
jammy Not vulnerable
(1.1.0+dfsg.1-4.1build1)
kinetic Ignored
(end of life, was needs-triage)
lunar Not vulnerable

mantic Not vulnerable

trusty Needed

upstream
Released (0.28.4,0.99.0)
xenial
Released (0.24.1-2ubuntu0.2+esm2)
Available with Ubuntu Pro
Patches:
upstream: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/3f7851eadca36a99627ad78cbe56a40d3776ed01
upstream: https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/e1832eb20a7089f6383cfce474f213157f5300cb

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 9.8
Attack vector Network
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality High
Integrity impact High
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H