CVE-2018-19486 Information

Description

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if ‘.’ were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=321fd82389742398d2924640ce3a61791fd27d60 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8