CVE-2020-12279

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-12279
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-12279.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2020-12279
Aliases
  • GHSA-589j-mmg9-733v
Downstream
Published
2020-04-27T17:15:13.470Z
Modified
2026-06-18T04:05:10.476606065Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/libgit2/libgit2

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
106a5f27586504ea371528191f0ea3aac2ad432b
Fixed
64c612cc3e25eff5fb02c59ef5a66ba7a14751e4
Fixed
172239021f7ba04fe7327647b213799853a9eb89
Database specific 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "0.28.4"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:libgit2:libgit2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.1.0
v0.10.0
v0.11.0
v0.12.0
v0.13.0
v0.14.0
v0.15.0
v0.16.0
v0.17.0
v0.18.0
v0.2.0
v0.21.0
v0.22.0
v0.22.0-rc1
v0.22.0-rc2
v0.23.0
v0.23.0-rc1
v0.23.0-rc2
v0.24.0
v0.24.0-rc1
v0.26.0
v0.26.0-rc1
v0.26.0-rc2
v0.27.0
v0.27.0-rc1
v0.27.0-rc2
v0.27.0-rc3
v0.28.0
v0.28.0-rc1
v0.28.1
v0.28.2
v0.28.3
v0.3.0
v0.8.0

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2020-12279.json"