DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12279

DEBIAN-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.

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

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Debian:12	libgit2	0, 0, 0
Debian:13	libgit2	0, 0, 0
Debian:14	libgit2	0, 0, 0
Debian:11	libgit2	0, 0, 0

Timeline

Apr 27, 2020 CVE Published
Apr 28, 2026 CVE Updated

References

https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2020-12279 advisory

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