CVE-2025-48384
Git allows arbitrary code execution through broken config quoting
Published:
7/8/2025
Last updated:
11/4/2025
Reserved:
5/19/2025
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.
CNA assigner:
GitHub_M (a0819718-46f1-4df5-94e2-005712e83aaa)
Requested by:
n/a
Products affected (1)
| Product |
Vendor |
Version |
| git |
git
|
17.9.1w
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