VDB
CVE-2020-12279
CVE-2020-12279
PUBLISHED
CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL
An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short names. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1353.
EPSS 5.21% · 92.5th percentile
Risk Scores
CVSS 3.1
9.800000190734863
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS Score
5.21%
92.5th percentile
Affected Products
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu:Pro:18.04:LTS | libgit2 | 0, 0.25.1+really0.24.6-1, 0.26.0+dfsg.1-1.1build1 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:14.04:LTS | libgit2 | 0, 0.19.0-2, 0.19.0-2ubuntu0.4 |
| Ubuntu:Pro:16.04:LTS | libgit2 | 0.22.2-2, 0.23.1-1, 0.24.1-2 |
Timeline
- Apr 27, 2020 CVE Published
- Apr 14, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jul 21, 2021 CVE Updated
- Aug 25, 2021 EPSS Score
- Oct 26, 2021 EPSS Score
- Jan 6, 2022 EPSS Score
- Feb 4, 2022 EPSS Score
- Apr 1, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jul 5, 2022 EPSS Score
- Sep 7, 2022 EPSS Score
- Jan 10, 2023 EPSS Score
- Mar 7, 2023 EPSS Score
References
- https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-589j-mmg9-733v third-party-advisory
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12279 third-party-advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-6678-1 advisory
- https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-12279 advisory
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.28.4 fix
- https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v0.99.0 fix