CVE-2018-19486

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.

Score

CVSS 3.0 9.8 Critical

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2018-11-23

Last modified

2024-08-05

Weaknesses

CWE-426

Affected products

• Ubuntu Linux (Canonical)
• Git (Git-scm)

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=321fd82389742398d2924640ce3a61791fd27d60
• https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/