CVE-2018-1000021 Command injection in n/a

What is CVE-2018-1000021?

CVE-2018-1000021 is a medium-severity command injection vulnerability in n/a, published on 9 Feb 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

Official description

GIT version 2.15.1 and earlier contains a Input Validation Error vulnerability in Client that can result in problems including messing up terminal configuration to RCE. This attack appear to be exploitable via The user must interact with a malicious git server, (or have their traffic modified in a MITM attack).

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2018-1000021?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Git-Scm Git.

How do I fix CVE-2018-1000021?

No fix has been published for CVE-2018-1000021 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-2018-1000021 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-1000021 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2022-23521 gitattributes parsing integer overflow in git Critical 9.8
• CVE-2022-41903 Integer overflow in `git archive`, `git log --format` leading to RCE in git Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-1353 Security feature bypass in Git Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-2315 Memory corruption in n/a Critical 9.8
• CVE-2016-2324 Integer overflow in n/a Critical 9.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2018-1000021, GHSA-vpq8-fvqp-vj6h, UBUNTU-CVE-2018-1000021.