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CVE-2022-29187 — Git is a distributed revision control system

Git is a distributed revision control system. Git prior to versions 2.37.1, 2.36.2, 2.35.4, 2.34.4, 2.33.4, 2.32.3, 2.31.4, and 2.30.5, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all platforms. An unsuspecting user could still be affected by the issue reported in CVE-2022-24765, fo

CVSS
7.8 HIGH
EPSS
0.07% (top 78.60%)
CWE
CWE-282, CWE-427
Published
2022-07-12T00:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-08-03T06:17:54.233Z
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

01What is this vulnerability?

Git is a distributed revision control system. Git prior to versions 2.37.1, 2.36.2, 2.35.4, 2.34.4, 2.33.4, 2.32.3, 2.31.4, and 2.30.5, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all platforms. An unsuspecting user could still be affected by the issue reported in CVE-2022-24765, for example when navigating as root into a shared tmp directory that is owned by them, but where an attacker could create…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
gitgit>= 2.30.3, < 2.30.5, >= 2.31.2, < 2.31.4, >= 2.32.1, < 2.32.3, >= 2.33.2, < 2.33.4, >= 2.34.2, < 2.34.4, >= 2.35.2, < 2.35.4, >= 2.36, < 2.36.2, >= 2.37, < 2.37.1

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

CVE-2022-24765
Cited in vendor advisory

08Timeline

09References

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