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An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x...

High severity Unreviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 24, 2023

Package

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Affected versions

Unknown

Patched versions

Unknown

Description

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short names. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1353.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 27, 2020
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Last updated Feb 24, 2023

Severity

High

EPSS score

2.322%
(90th percentile)

CVE ID

CVE-2020-12279

GHSA ID

GHSA-jq74-8pv3-p93c

Source code

No known source code

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