CVE-2014-9390

critical

Description

Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine all versions before 08-12-2014; libgit2 all versions up to 0.21.2; Egit all versions before 08-12-2014; and JGit all versions before 08-12-2014 allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.

References

Advisories
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769667

https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/928429c5c96a701bcbcafacb2421a82602b36915

http://securitytracker.com/id?1031404

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew

http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-and-221-and.html

https://libgit2.org/security/

https://github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204147

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-02-12

Updated: 2021-05-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.55738