CVE-2020-12278
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 6.0%libgit2 - security update
Published: 4/27/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
Also known as:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-12278
Description
An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. path.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS Alternate Data Streams. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1352.
Affected packages (2)
- Debian/libgit2from 0, < 0.28.4+dfsg.1-2
- Debian/libgit2from 0, < 0.27.7+dfsg.1-0.2+deb10u1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | CRITICAL9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |