CVE-2018-1000021

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v3.1)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-02-09 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

GIT version 2.15.1 and earlier contains a Input Validation Error vulnerability in Client that can result in problems including messing up terminal configuration to RCE. This attack appear to be exploitable via The user must interact with a malicious git server, (or have their traffic modified in a MITM attack).

Affected products

git: through 2.15.1

References

http://www.batterystapl.es/2018/01/security-implications-of-ansi-escape.html
http://www.batterystapl.es/2018/01/security-implications-of-ansi-escape.html

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