CVE-2017-8386

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Published 2017-06-01 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

git-shell in git before 2.4.12, 2.5.x before 2.5.6, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.5, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, 2.10.x before 2.10.3, 2.11.x before 2.11.2, and 2.12.x before 2.12.3 might allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a repository name that starts with a - (dash) character.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Fedora Affected 3 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
26	Affected	—
25	Affected	—
24	Affected	—

SUSE Affected 2 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
42.1	Affected	—
—	Affected	—

Ubuntu Affected 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
17.04	Affected	—
16.10	Affected	—
16.04	Affected	—
14.04	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 6 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
sid	Fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
forky	Fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
bullseye	Fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
bookworm	Fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
8.0	Affected	—

Arch Fixed 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Fixed	`2.13.0-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
git	git-shell	`-`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.