CVE-2023-49569

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Published 2024-01-10 · Modified 2026-02-04

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to create and amend files across the filesystem. In the worse case scenario, remote code execution could be achieved. Applications are only affected if they are using the ChrootOS https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5/osfs#ChrootOS , which is the default when using "Plain" versions of Open and Clone funcs (e.g. PlainClone). Applications using BoundOS https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5/osfs#BoundOS or in-memory filesystems are not affected by this issue. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

Debian Mixed 4 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`5.11.0-1`
sid	Fixed	`5.11.0-1`
forky	Fixed	`5.11.0-1`
bookworm	Affected	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
Go	github.com/go-git/go-git/v5	`>=5.0.0,<5.11.0`	`5.11.0`
Go	gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4	`>=4.0.0,<=4.13.1`
Go	gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4	`>=4.7.1`

References

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

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