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CVE-2016-10130

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.9 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2017-03-24 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-284

Description

The http_connect function in transports/http.c in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging clobbering of the error variable.

Affected products

• Libgit2 Project Libgit2: through 0.24.5; 0.25.0, 0.25.0-rc1, 0.25.0-rc2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00030.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00036.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00072.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/10/5
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/11/6
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95359
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/9a64e62f0f20c9cf9b2e1609f037060eb2d8eb22
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/b5c6a1b407b7f8b952bded2789593b68b1876211
• https://libgit2.github.com/security/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00030.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00036.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2017-02/msg00072.html

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