The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-6050-1 advisory.

    It was discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue     to overwriting some paths. (CVE-2023-25652)

    Maxime Escourbiac and Yassine BENGANA discovered that Git incorrectly handled some gettext machinery. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to allows the malicious placement of crafted messages.
    (CVE-2023-25815)

    Andr Baptista and Vtor Pinho discovered that Git incorrectly handled certain configurations. An     attacker could possibly use this issue to arbitrary configuration injection. (CVE-2023-29007)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

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

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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 23.04 : Git vulnerabilities (USN-6050-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 174961

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Version 1.5 Aug 28, 2024, 7:43 PM CVSS metrics ("Cvssv4 score" set to 0.0) CVSSv2 severity (based on None, severity decreased from "High" to "Low") Detection (updated detection logic) Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202408281943
Version 1.4 Oct 23, 2023, 6:27 PM Detection Plugin metadata Plugin Feed: 202310231827
Version 1.3 May 24, 2023, 8:43 PM Exploit attributes ("Exploit available" set to "True". "Exploitability ease" changed from "No known exploits are available" to "Exploits are available") CVSS temporal metrics ("CVSSv2 temporal vector" set to "CVSS2#E:POC/RL:OF/RC:C". "CVSSv3 temporal vector" set to "CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C") Plugin Feed: 202305242043
Version 1.2 May 5, 2023, 2:01 PM CVSSv3 score source (set to "CVE-2023-29007") CVSS metrics ("CVSSv2 score" changed from 7.2 to 7.8. "CVSSv2 score" changed from 7.2 to 7.8. "CVSSv2 score" changed from 7.2 to 7.8. "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N". "CVSSv2 vector" changed from "CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C" to "CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:C/A:N") Plugin Feed: 202305051401
Version 1.1 May 2, 2023, 4:01 PM Regenerated based on advisory update Plugin Feed: 202305021601
Version 1.0 May 1, 2023, 9:07 PM New Plugin Feed: 202305012107