CVE-2018-10859

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2018-07-16 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-200

Description

git-annex is vulnerable to an Information Exposure when decrypting files. A malicious server for a special remote could trick git-annex into decrypting a file that was encrypted to the user's gpg key. This attack could be used to expose encrypted data that was never stored in git-annex

Affected products

Debian Linux: 8.0
git-annex: all versions

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10859
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00004.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2018-10859
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/09/msg00004.html

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