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CVE-2021-21300

Git is an open-source distributed revision control system. In affected versions of Git a specially crafted repository that contains symbolic links as well as files using a clean/smudge filter such as Git LFS, may cause just-checked out script to be executed while cloning onto a case-insensitive file system such as NTFS, HFS+ or APFS (i.e. the default file systems on Windows and macOS). Note that clean/smudge filters have to be configured for that. Git for Windows configures Git LFS by default, and is therefore vulnerable. The problem has been patched in the versions published on Tuesday, March 9th, 2021. As a workaound, if symbolic link support is disabled in Git (e.g. via git config --global core.symlinks false), the described attack won't work. Likewise, if no clean/smudge filters such as Git LFS are configured globally (i.e. before cloning), the attack is foiled. As always, it is best to avoid cloning repositories from untrusted sources. The earliest impacted version is 2.14.2. The fix versions are: 2.30.1, 2.29.3, 2.28.1, 2.27.1, 2.26.3, 2.25.5, 2.24.4, 2.23.4, 2.22.5, 2.21.4, 2.20.5, 2.19.6, 2.18.5, 2.17.62.17.6.

  • Published: Mar 9, 2021
  • Updated: Apr 14, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2021-21300
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v3:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: Medium
  • Score: 5.1
  • AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
git-scm / git - 2.14.2.x
git-scm / git 2.25.0 2.25.5
git-scm / git 2.24.0 2.24.4
git-scm / git 2.23.0 2.23.4
git-scm / git 2.22.0 2.22.5
git-scm / git 2.21.0 2.21.4
git-scm / git 2.20.0 2.20.5
git-scm / git 2.19.0 2.19.6
git-scm / git 2.18.0 2.18.5
git-scm / git 2.17.0 2.17.6
git-scm / git 2.26.0 2.26.3
git-scm / git 2.29.0 2.29.3
git-scm / git 2.30.0 2.30.2
git-scm / git 2.27.0 2.27.0.x
git-scm / git 2.28.0 2.28.0.x
fedoraproject / fedora 32 32.x
fedoraproject / fedora 33 33.x
fedoraproject / fedora 34 34.x
apple / xcode - 12.5
debian / debian_linux 10.0 10.0.x