CVE-2017-15298
MEDIUMGit < 2.14.2 - Denial of Service via Crafted Repository
Title source: llmDescription
Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.
References (4)
Core 4
Core References
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb
Exploit, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory
x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/
Mailing List vendor-advisory
x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
Scores
CVSS v3
5.5
EPSS
0.0164
EPSS Percentile
73.4%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (5)
canonical/ubuntu_linux
14.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux
18.10
git-scm/git
< 2.14.2
Published
Oct 14, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026