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CVE-2026-53587: libgit2 - Unauthenticated network-reachable heap out-of-bounds read in transports/smart_pkt.c:set_data

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2026-08-20 · updated 2026-10-26
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, libgit2 performs a fixed-size strncmp in set_data in src/libgit2/transports/smart_pkt.c without first verifying that the smart-protocol pkt-line capability buffer contains 14 bytes. A malicious Git server can make bytes after the pkt-line complete object-format=, causing format_str to advance beyond the pkt-line and the following memchr length calculation to underflow. The resulting heap out-of-bounds walk can crash a client during the first refs-advertisement packet over HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, or the Git protocol. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.6 and 1.9.5.

Affected products

• libgit2: before 1.8.6; from 1.9.0, < 1.9.5

References

• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/2c0ce8c0132ac38ab0db28239462a671e2e5440e
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/affda60c10fcef16723451c0d7dc71b71dc20ad3
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/d7a9fb87f504434e9f45228678953c4fa56e7640
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v1.8.6
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v1.9.5
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/security/advisories/GHSA-pm24-4jhq-3xvm
• https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/security/advisories/GHSA-pm24-4jhq-3xvm

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