CVE-2024-52005
HighCVSS 8.8Summary
Git, when cloning, fetching, or pushing, transports informational and error messages from the remote process via the sideband channel, prefixing them with "remote:" and printing to standard error. Git did not protect against ANSI escape sequences, which a malicious actor can use to hide or misrepresent information or mislead the user into executing untrusted scripts.
Risk Assessment
An attacker can manipulate terminal output, hide information, or trick the user into executing malicious commands during Git operations with an untrusted repository.
Recommendation
Update Git to a version containing the fix; until then, avoid recursive clones from untrusted sources.
Other vulnerabilities in Git
See all- CVE-2017-14867High
Git versions before 2.10.5, 2.11.x before 2.11.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.5, 2.13.x before 2.13.6, and 2.14.x before 2.14.2 use unsafe Perl scripts to support subcommands, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in a module name.
- CVE-2024-52006High
Git defines a line-based protocol used to exchange information between Git and Git credential helpers. Some ecosystems (most likely those using this protocol) may be vulnerable to attacks related to this protocol.
- CVE-2024-50349Medium
When Git asks for credentials via a terminal prompt (without using a credential helper), it prints the host name for which the credentials are requested. This may lead to unintended disclosure of the host name.
- CVE-2025-48385High
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system. When cloning a repository Git knows to optionally fetch a bundle advertised by the remote server, which allows the server-side to offload.
- CVE-2023-29007High
Git before versions 2.30.9, 2.31.8, 2.32.7, 2.33.8, 2.34.8, 2.35.8, 2.36.6, 2.37.7, 2.38.5, 2.39.3, and 2.40.1 contains a bug in handling .gitmodules files that allows injection of arbitrary configuration into $GIT_DIR/config when attempting to remove a submodule section. If injected values specify executables to run (e.g., core.pager, core.editor, core.sshCommand), this can lead to remote code execution.
- CVE-2015-7545Critical
In Git versions before 2.3.10, 2.4.x before 2.4.10, 2.5.x before 2.5.4, and 2.6.x before 2.6.1, there is a vulnerability that does not properly restrict allowed protocols in remote helper programs. This may allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a URL in a .gitmodules file or other unknown sources in a submodule.
- CVE-2016-2324Critical
Integer overflow in Git before version 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) long filename or (2) many nested trees, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
- CVE-2016-2315Critical
In git versions before 2.7.4, there is a bug in revision.c that uses an incorrect integer data type. This allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) long filenames or (2) many nested trees, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow.
- CVE-2026-93326Medium
A build step for a Git source, crafted in a specific way, can bypass some policy validation rules. A malicious build definition can make the repository look like it is coming from a different remote URL than it really is when Git clone is happening. If policy is doing more stricter validation, for example based on commit SHA, commit data, or signatures, then all these validations still apply correctly.
- CVE-2025-69160High
Gita versions up to 1.11 are vulnerable to unauthenticated local file inclusion.
Original NVD description (English source)
Git is a source code management tool. When cloning from a server (or fetching, or pushing), informational or error messages are transported from the remote Git process to the client via the so-called "sideband channel". These messages will be prefixed with "remote:" and printed directly to the standard error output. Typically, this standard error output is connected to a terminal that understands ANSI escape sequences, which Git did not protect against. Most modern terminals support control sequences that can be used by a malicious actor to hide and misrepresent information, or to mislead the user into executing untrusted scripts. As requested on the git-security mailing list, the patches are under discussion on the public mailing list. Users are advised to update as soon as possible. Users unable to upgrade should avoid recursive clones unless they are from trusted sources.
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