CVE-2020-12279
CRITICAL9.8EPSS 5.2%Published: 4/27/2020Modified: 4/28/2026
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.
Affected packages (1)
- Debian/libgit2from 0, < 0.28.4+dfsg.1-2
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 |