Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting git package, versions <2.18.1-r0
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
Exploit Maturity
Mature
EPSS
16.06% (96th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-ALPINE38-GIT-340826
- published 6 Oct 2018
- disclosed 6 Oct 2018
Introduced: 6 Oct 2018
CVE-2018-17456 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Alpine:3.8
git
to version 2.18.1-r0 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 2.14.5, 2.15.x before 2.15.3, 2.16.x before 2.16.5, 2.17.x before 2.17.2, 2.18.x before 2.18.1, and 2.19.x before 2.19.1 allows remote code execution during processing of a recursive "git clone" of a superproject if a .gitmodules file has a URL field beginning with a '-' character.
References
- Bugtraq Mailing List
- CVE Details
- Debian Security Advisory
- Debian Security Tracker
- Exploit DB
- Exploit DB
- GitHub Commit
- GitHub Commit
- HP Security Bulletin
- MISC
- OSS security Advisory
- RHSA Security Advisory
- RHSA Security Advisory
- RHSA Security Advisory
- RHSA Security Advisory
- Security Focus
- Security Focus
- Security Tracker
- SUSE
- Ubuntu CVE Tracker
- Ubuntu Security Advisory
- Exploit DB