CVEvulnerability

CVE-2020-12278

9.8 CRITICAL Published 2020-04-27 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2020-04-27
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.1/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-706

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.

Affected configurations

• libgit2 libgit2 (< 0.28.4) • debian debian linux 9.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-706 Use of Incorrectly-Resolved Name or Reference weakness

References