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CVE-2017-15298

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-10-14 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10
• git: through 2.14.2

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
• https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb
• https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
• https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb
• https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/

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