CVE-2020-12278

Critical

Description

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. path.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS Alternate Data Streams. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1352.

SeverityCritical
CVSS9.8
Exploit probability—
ProductLibgit2
PublishedApr 27, 2020
First seenApr 27, 2020

How to fix

Update
  • libgit2 libgit20.28.4 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
libgit2 libgit2v < 0.28.40.28.4
debian debian_linux9.0—

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