CVEvulnerability
CVE-2018-19486
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-11-23
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426
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.
Affected configurations
• git-scm git (< 2.19.2)
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 18.10
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=321fd82389742398d2924640ce3a61791fd27d60 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/ Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800 Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=321fd82389742398d2924640ce3a61791fd27d60 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13 security.gentoo.org
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/ Third Party Advisory