CVE-2020-12278 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-5wph-8frv-58vj https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/3f7851eadca36a99627ad78cbe56a40d3776ed01 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/e1832eb20a7089f6383cfce474f213157f5300cb https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.28.4 https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.99.0

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