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CVE-2020-5260 — Affected versions of Git have a vulnerability whereby Git can be tricked into se

Affected versions of Git have a vulnerability whereby Git can be tricked into sending private credentials to a host controlled by an attacker. Git uses external "credential helper" programs to store and retrieve passwords or other credentials from secure storage provide

CVSS
9.3 CRITICAL
EPSS
32.54% (top 3.20%)
CWE
CWE-20
Published
2020-04-14T22:50:12.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-04T08:22:09.095Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:N

01What is this vulnerability?

Affected versions of Git have a vulnerability whereby Git can be tricked into sending private credentials to a host controlled by an attacker. 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 contain an encoded newline can inject unintended values into the…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
gitgit< 2.17.4, >= 2.18.0, < 2.18.3, >= 2.19.0, 2.19.4, >= 2.20.0, < 2.20.3, >= 2.21.0, < 2.21.2, >= 2.22.0, < 2.22.3, >= 2.23.0, < 2.23.2, >= 2.24.0, < 2.24.2, >= 2.25.0, < 2.25.3, >= 2.26.0, < 2.26.1

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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