CVE-2014-6274

S3 and Glacier remotes creds embedded in the git repo were not encrypted

State: Published
Severity: 7.5 High
Published: Jun 26, 2025
Updated: Jun 27, 2025
Reserved: Sep 9, 2014

Description

git-annex had a bug in the S3 and Glacier remotes where if embedcreds=yes was set, and the remote used encryption=pubkey or encryption=hybrid, the embedded AWS credentials were stored in the git repository in (effectively) plaintext, not encrypted as they were supposed to be. This issue affects git-annex: from 3.20121126 before 5.20140919.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.5 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-311 Missing Encryption of Sensitive Data

Affected Products

Product	Versions
git-annexgit-annex	3.20121126 to before 5.20140919Affected

References

https://git-annex.branchable.com/upgrades/insecure_embedded_creds/

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