Description
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.
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.0516
EPSS Percentile
89.9%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-706
Status
published
Products (2)
debian/debian_linux
9.0
libgit2/libgit2
< 0.28.4
Published
Apr 27, 2020
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026