CVE-2021-29468
Summary
| CVE | CVE-2021-29468 |
|---|---|
| State | PUBLIC |
| Assigner | [email protected] |
| Source Priority | CVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback |
| Published | 2021-04-29 21:15:00 UTC |
| Updated | 2023-11-07 03:32:00 UTC |
| Description | Cygwin Git is a patch set for the git command line tool for the cygwin environment. A specially crafted repository that contains symbolic links as well as files with backslash characters in the file name may cause just-checked out code to be executed while checking out a repository using Git on Cygwin. The problem will be patched in the Cygwin Git v2.31.1-2 release. At time of writing, the vulnerability is present in the upstream Git source code; any Cygwin user who compiles Git for themselves from upstream sources should manually apply a patch to mitigate the vulnerability. As mitigation users should not clone or pull from repositories from untrusted sources. CVE-2019-1354 was an equivalent vulnerability in Git for Visual Studio. |
Risk And Classification
Problem Types: CWE-20
NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)
References
| Reference | Source | Link | Tags |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arbitrary code execution when checking out an attacker-controlled Git branch · Advisory · me-and/Cygwin-Git · GitHub | CONFIRM | github.com | |
| Security vulnerability in Git for Cygwin | MISC | lore.kernel.org | |
| Security vulnerability in Git for Cygwin | MISC | cygwin.com | |
| Cygwin-Git/check-backslash-safety.patch at main · me-and/Cygwin-Git · GitHub | MISC | github.com | |
| Security vulnerability in Git for Cygwin | lore.kernel.org | ||
| CVE Program record | CVE.ORG | www.cve.org | canonical |
| NVD vulnerability detail | NVD | nvd.nist.gov | canonical, analysis |
No vendor comments have been submitted for this CVE.