CVEvulnerability

CVE-2022-31012

7.3 HIGH Published 2022-07-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-07-12
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
8.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.3 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-426

Description

Git for Windows is a fork of Git that contains Windows-specific patches. This vulnerability in versions prior to 2.37.1 lets Git for Windows' installer execute a binary into `C:\mingw64\bin\git.exe` by mistake. This only happens upon a fresh install, not when upgrading Git for Windows. A patch is included in version 2.37.1. Two workarounds are available. Create the `C:\mingw64` folder and remove read/write access from this folder, or disallow arbitrary authenticated users to create folders in `C:\`.

Affected configurations

• gitforwindows git (< 2.37.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-426 Untrusted Search Path weakness

References