CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-15298
5.5 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-10-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-400
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.
Affected configurations
• git-scm git (<= 2.14.2)
• canonical ubuntu linux 14.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 16.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html lists.opensuse.org
- https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/ Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/ Third Party Advisory