CVE-2020-12279

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
2026-05-16T03:55:44.570378682Z
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": [
        {
            "source": "CPE_FIELD",
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux",
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages