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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.5 High

CVE-2023-49568

Maliciously crafted Git server replies can cause DoS on go-git clients

Description

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients. Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

go-git go-git

Default version status: unaffected

  • 5.11.0affected

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