The remote CentOS Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2020:2337 advisory.

  - Affected versions of Git have a vulnerability whereby Git can be tricked into sending private credentials     to a host controlled by an attacker. This bug is similar to CVE-2020-5260(GHSA-qm7j-c969-7j4q). The fix     for that bug still left the door open for an exploit where _some_ credential is leaked (but the attacker     cannot control which one). Git uses external credential helper programs to store and retrieve passwords     or other credentials from secure storage provided by the operating system. Specially-crafted URLs that are     considered illegal as of the recently published Git versions can cause Git to send a blank pattern to     helpers, missing hostname and protocol fields. Many helpers will interpret this as matching _any_ URL, and     will return some unspecified stored password, leaking the password to an attacker's server. The     vulnerability can be triggered by feeding a malicious URL to `git clone`. However, the affected URLs look     rather suspicious; the likely vector would be through systems which automatically clone URLs not visible     to the user, such as Git submodules, or package systems built around Git. The root of the problem is in     Git itself, which should not be feeding blank input to helpers. However, the ability to exploit the     vulnerability in practice depends on which helpers are in use. Credential helpers which are known to     trigger the vulnerability: - Git's store helper - Git's cache helper - the osxkeychain helper that     ships in Git's contrib directory Credential helpers which are known to be safe even with vulnerable     versions of Git: - Git Credential Manager for Windows Any helper not in this list should be assumed to     trigger the vulnerability. (CVE-2020-11008)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

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CentOS 7 : git (RHSA-2020:2337)

high Nessus Plugin ID 137006

Version 1.3