CVE-2024-32884 — gitoxide is a pure Rust implementation of Git

gitoxide is a pure Rust implementation of Git. `gix-transport` does not check the username part of a URL for text that the external `ssh` program would interpret as an option. A specially crafted clone URL can smuggle options to SSH. The possibilities are syntactically limited, b

01What is this vulnerability?

gitoxide is a pure Rust implementation of Git. `gix-transport` does not check the username part of a URL for text that the external `ssh` program would interpret as an option. A specially crafted clone URL can smuggle options to SSH. The possibilities are syntactically limited, but if a malicious clone URL is used by an application whose current working directory contains a malicious file…

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Byron	gitoxide	< 0.42.0, < 0.62, < 0.35

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

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

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

• Published: 2024-04-26T18:04:04.374Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T02:20:35.704Z

09References

• github.com — https://github.com/Byron/gitoxide/security/advisories/GHSA-98p4-xjmm-8mfh
• rustsec.org — https://rustsec.org/advisories/RUSTSEC-2024-0335.html