CVE-2022-29187

Git is a distributed revision control system. Git prior to versions 2.37.1, 2.36.2, 2.35.4, 2.34.4, 2.33.4, 2.32.3, 2.31.4, and 2.30.5, is vulnerable to privilege escalation in all platforms. An unsuspecting user could still be affected by the issue reported in CVE-2022-24765, for example when navigating as root into a shared tmp directory that is owned by them, but where an attacker could create a git repository. Versions 2.37.1, 2.36.2, 2.35.4, 2.34.4, 2.33.4, 2.32.3, 2.31.4, and 2.30.5 contain a patch for this issue. The simplest way to avoid being affected by the exploit described in the example is to avoid running git as root (or an Administrator in Windows), and if needed to reduce its use to a minimum. While a generic workaround is not possible, a system could be hardened from the exploit described in the example by removing any such repository if it exists already and creating one as root to block any future attacks.

Database specific

{
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-282",
        "CWE-427"
    ]
}

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/git-for-windows/git

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/git-for-windows/git
Events: Introduced

518ccba2352ce721cabbbf2933869c3c3313d1c3

Fixed

9a2f22d016b61018668f8dd2f53faf92c40c6bb8

Git / github.com/git-for-windows/git

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/git/git
Events: Introduced

cb95038137e9e66fc6a6b4a0e8db62bcc521b709

Fixed

88b7be68a4bf9f39b84ed438d8d776c0d752b316

Affected versions

v2.*

v2.30.3

v2.30.4