vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000117: Security patch for git (ALAS-2017-882)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Aug 31, 2017
Added
Dec 20, 2017
Modified
Oct 14, 2022

Description

A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed. Such a URL could be placed in the .gitmodules file of a malicious project, and an unsuspecting victim could be tricked into running "git clone --recurse-submodules" to trigger the vulnerability.

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-git
Title
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