Untrusted Search Path Affecting git package, versions <2.18.1-r1
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
2.23% (90th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE38-GIT-339341
- published 2 Dec 2018
- disclosed 23 Nov 2018
Introduced: 23 Nov 2018
CVE-2018-19486 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.8
git
to version 2.18.1-r1 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream git
package and not the git
package as distributed by Alpine
.
See How to fix?
for Alpine:3.8
relevant fixed versions and status.
Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.
References
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2018-19486
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-19486
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=321fd82389742398d2924640ce3a61791fd27d60
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2018-19486
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/