CVE-2022-39260

Git vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via Heap overflow in `git shell`

State
Published
Severity
8.5 High
Published
Oct 19, 2022
Updated
Aug 3, 2024
Reserved
Sep 2, 2022

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Description

Git is an open source, scalable, distributed revision control system. `git shell` is a restricted login shell that can be used to implement Git's push/pull functionality via SSH. In versions prior to 2.30.6, 2.31.5, 2.32.4, 2.33.5, 2.34.5, 2.35.5, 2.36.3, and 2.37.4, the function that splits the command arguments into an array improperly uses an `int` to represent the number of entries in the array, allowing a malicious actor to intentionally overflow the return value, leading to arbitrary heap writes. Because the resulting array is then passed to `execv()`, it is possible to leverage this attack to gain remote code execution on a victim machine. Note that a victim must first allow access to `git shell` as a login shell in order to be vulnerable to this attack. This problem is patched in versions 2.30.6, 2.31.5, 2.32.4, 2.33.5, 2.34.5, 2.35.5, 2.36.3, and 2.37.4 and users are advised to upgrade to the latest version. Disabling `git shell` access via remote logins is a viable short-term workaround.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.18.5 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M

Weaknesses

Affected Products

ProductVersions
gitgit
  • < 2.30.6Affected
  • > 2.31.0, < 2.31.5Affected
  • > 2.32.0, < 2.32.4Affected
  • > 2.33.0, < 2.33.5Affected
  • > 2.34.0, < 2.34.5Affected
  • > 2.34.0, < 2.35.5Affected
  • > 2.35.0, < 2.36.3Affected
  • > 2.37.0, < 2.37.4Affected

References

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