GHSA-h66v-9g4g-85x5

GHSA-h66v-9g4g-85x5 PUBLISHED CVSS 8.800000190734863 HIGH

Record from GitHub Advisory Database · Published May 13, 2022

Git before 2.10.5, 2.11.x before 2.11.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.5, 2.13.x before 2.13.6, and 2.14.x before 2.14.2 uses unsafe Perl scripts to support subcommands such as cvsserver, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in a module name. The vulnerable code is reachable via git-shell even without CVS support.

Risk scores

CVSS 3.0

8.800000190734863

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

Timeline

May 13, 2022 CVE Published
Apr 29, 2026 Security Advisory
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

Query this with the API

The same record, from the CLI:

vulnetix vdb vuln GHSA-h66v-9g4g-85x5
vulnetix vdb fixes GHSA-h66v-9g4g-85x5

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curl -s -H "Authorization: ApiKey ${VULNETIX_ORG_ID}:${VULNETIX_API_KEY}" \
  "https://api.vdb.vulnetix.com/v2/vuln/GHSA-h66v-9g4g-85x5/fixes/registry"

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