git-fastclone Shell Metacharacter Injection Arbitrary Command Execution
Published: December 15, 2015
SECURITY IDENTIFIERS
- CVE: CVE-2015-8969 (NVD)
- GHSA: GHSA-mf6w-45cf-qhmp
- Vendor Advisory: https://hackerone.com/reports/105190
GEM
SEVERITY
CVSS v3.x: 9.8 (Critical)
PATCHED VERSIONS
>= 1.0.5
DESCRIPTION
git-fastclone before 1.0.5 passes user modifiable strings directly to a shell command. An attacker can execute malicious commands by modifying the strings that are passed as arguments to "cd " and "git clone " commands in the library.