Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting git-fastclone package, versions <1.0.5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
3.38% (92nd
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-GITFASTCLONE-20352
- published 28 Mar 2017
- disclosed 15 Dec 2015
- credit Blake Burkhart
Introduced: 15 Dec 2015
CVE-2015-8969 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade to version 1.0.5 or greater.
Overview
git-fastclone is a git command that uses reference repositories and threading to quickly and recursively clone repositories with many nested submodules.
Details
git-fastclone before 1.0.5 passes user modifiable strings directly to a shell command. An attacker can execute malicious commands by modifying the strings that are passed as arguments to cd and git clone commands in the library.