CVE-2026-100407

Medium

Description

Git for Windows is the Windows port of Git. From 2.44.0.windows.1 until 2.55.0.windows.3, the git-credential-wincred store operation in contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c uses _scwprintf() to size a formatted wide-character credential buffer without space for the terminating NUL when both password and oauth_refresh_token are present. The operation also passes a byte count to _snwprintf_s() where a wide-character count is required, allowing the terminator to be written one WCHAR past the heap allocation before CredWriteW() persists the credential. The resulting fixed two-byte NUL overwrite can terminate the helper with Windows heap-corruption status and can cause git credential approve to report success even though the OAuth credential was not stored. This issue is fixed in version 2.55.0.windows.3.

SeverityMedium
CVSS4.4
Exploit probability—
ProductGit for Windows
PublishedNov 4, 2026
First seenNov 4, 2026

How to fix

Update
  • Git for Windows Git for Windows2.55.0.windows.3 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
Git for Windows Git for Windows2.44.0.windows.1 ≤ v ≤ 2.55.0.windows.32.55.0.windows.3

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