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CVE-2008-5516

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 4.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2009-01-20 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-78

Description

The web interface in git (gitweb) 1.5.x before 1.5.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters related to git_search.

Affected products

• Git: 0.99.9j, 0.99.9k, 0.99.9l, 0.99.9m, 0.99.9n, 1.0.0 (+108)
• git: 0.6.0, 0.7.0

References

• http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512330
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-01/msg00002.html
• http://repo.or.cz/w/git.git?a=commitdiff%3Bh=c582abae
• http://secunia.com/advisories/33964
• http://secunia.com/advisories/34194
• http://securityreason.com/securityalert/4919
• http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0005
• http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1708
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200903-15.xml
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/20/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/21/7
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/23/2

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