CVE-2020-12279

Published April 27th, 2020

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CVSS v3

9.8

CRITICAL

CVSS v2

7.5

HIGH

Affected

PROJECTS

Description

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short names. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1353.

git/git

Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

GitHub

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libgit2/libgit2

A cross-platform, linkable library implementation of Git that you can use in your application.

GitHub

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