CVE-2017-15298 Information

Description

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

REQUIRED

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

5.5