CVE-2017-8768 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2017-8768?

CVE-2017-8768 is a critical command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 4 May 2017. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Atlassian SourceTree v2.5c and prior are affected by a command injection in the handling of the sourcetree:// scheme. It will lead to arbitrary OS command execution with a URL substring of sourcetree://cloneRepo/ext:: or sourcetree://checkoutRef/ext:: followed by the command. The Atlassian ID number is SRCTREE-4632.

Weakness: CWE-78

Which versions are affected by CVE-2017-8768?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Atlassian Sourcetree.

How do I fix CVE-2017-8768?

No fix has been published for CVE-2017-8768 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and pass arguments to programs as a list instead of through a shell. More about Command injection.

Is CVE-2017-8768 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2017-8768 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2018-13385 Command injection in Sourcetree for macOS Critical 9.8
• CVE-2024-21697 Code injection in Sourcetree for Mac High 8.8
• CVE-2019-11582 Command injection in Sourcetree for Windows High 8.8
• CVE-2018-20234 Command injection in Sourcetree for macOS High 8.8
• CVE-2018-20235 Command injection in Sourcetree for Windows High 8.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-pf5p-r5w7-3r8g.