Git allows arbitrary code execution through broken config quoting (git git)

CVE-2025-48384
HIGH 8.1CISA KEV ↗Exploited per ENISA since 2025-08-25

At a glance

Source
NVD
EPSS
EPSS 4.38 % · percentile 91 ()
State
PUBLISHED
Published
Updated
Assigner
GitHub_M
NVD status
Analyzed

Description

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. When reading a config value, Git strips any trailing carriage return and line feed (CRLF). When writing a config entry, values with a trailing CR are not quoted, causing the CR to be lost when the config is later read. When initializing a submodule, if the submodule path contains a trailing CR, the altered path is read resulting in the submodule being checked out to an incorrect location. If a symlink exists that points the altered path to the submodule hooks directory, and the submodule contains an executable post-checkout hook, the script may be unintentionally executed after checkout. This vulnerability is fixed in v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3, v2.48.2, v2.49.1, and v2.50.1.

Weaknesses (CWE)

  • CWE-436 — Interpretation Conflict
  • CWE-59 — Improper Link Resolution Before File Access

References

Scores

VersionScoreVectorScored by
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HGitHub_M
CVSS 3.1HIGH 8.0CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HNVD · security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

European references

CERT-FR advisories

Affected configurations (NVD CPE)

Affected products

ProductVersions
git · gitaffected < 2.43.7 ; affected >= 2.44.0-rc0, < 2.44.4 ; affected >= 2.45.0-rc0, < 2.45.4 ; affected >= 2.46.0-rc0, < 2.46.4 ; affected >= 2.47.0-rc0, < 2.47.3 ; affected >= 2.48.0-rc0, < 2.48.2

Sources

SourceLicence
CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5)CVE Program Terms of Use
CISA Known Exploited VulnerabilitiesCC0 1.0
EPSS (FIRST.org)FIRST — attribution requested
ENISA EUVDENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged
CERT-FR (ANSSI)Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0
NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feedsPublic domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD