CVE-2014-9390

CRITICAL

Malicious Git and Mercurial HTTP Server For CVE-2014-9390

Title source: metasploit

Description

Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine all versions before 08-12-2014; libgit2 all versions up to 0.21.2; Egit all versions before 08-12-2014; and JGit all versions before 08-12-2014 allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.

Exploits (2)

metasploit WORKING POC EXCELLENT
rubypoc
https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/git_client_command_exec.rb

Scores

CVSS v3 9.8
EPSS 0.7715
EPSS Percentile 98.9%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Classification

CWE
CWE-20
Status published

Affected Products (10)

git-scm/git < 1.8.5.6
mercurial/mercurial < 3.2.3
apple/xcode < 6.1.1
apple/xcode
apple/xcode
eclipse/egit < 08-12-2014
eclipse/jgit < 3.4.2
libgit2/libgit2 < 0.21.3
org.eclipse.jgit/org.eclipse.jgit < 3.5.3Maven
pypi/mercurial < 3.2.3PyPI

Timeline

Published Feb 12, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026