Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2020-5260  

Felix Wilhelm of Google Project Zero discovered a flaw in git, a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system. With a crafted URL that contains a newline, the credential helper machinery can be fooled to return credential information for a wrong host.

Severity High

Remote Yes

Type Information disclosure

Description

Felix Wilhelm of Google Project Zero discovered a flaw in git, a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system. With a crafted URL that contains a newline, the credential helper machinery can be fooled to return credential information for a wrong host.

AVG-1133 git 2.26.0-1 2.26.1-1 High Fixed

https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=9a6bbee8006c24b46a85d29e7b38cfa79e9ab21b
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=c716fe4bd917e013bf376a678b3a924447777b2d
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=07259e74ec1237c836874342c65650bdee8a3993
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/project-zero/issues/detail?id=2021