vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2022-24765: On multi-user machines Git users might find themselves unexpectedly in a Git worktree (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
2022-04-12
Added
2023-05-15
Modified
2024-09-03

Description

Git for Windows is a fork of Git containing Windows-specific patches. This vulnerability affects users working on multi-user machines, where untrusted parties have write access to the same hard disk. Those untrusted parties could create the folder `C:\.git`, which would be picked up by Git operations run supposedly outside a repository while searching for a Git directory. Git would then respect any config in said Git directory. Git Bash users who set `GIT_PS1_SHOWDIRTYSTATE` are vulnerable as well. Users who installed posh-gitare vulnerable simply by starting a PowerShell. Users of IDEs such as Visual Studio are vulnerable: simply creating a new project would already read and respect the config specified in `C:\.git\config`. Users of the Microsoft fork of Git are vulnerable simply by starting a Git Bash. The problem has been patched in Git for Windows v2.35.2. Users unable to upgrade may create the folder `.git` on all drives where Git commands are run, and remove read/write access from those folders as a workaround. Alternatively, define or extend `GIT_CEILING_DIRECTORIES` to cover the _parent_ directory of the user profile, e.g. `C:\Users` if the user profile is located in `C:\Users\my-user-name`.

Solution(s)

redhat-upgrade-gitredhat-upgrade-git-allredhat-upgrade-git-coreredhat-upgrade-git-core-debuginforedhat-upgrade-git-core-docredhat-upgrade-git-credential-libsecretredhat-upgrade-git-credential-libsecret-debuginforedhat-upgrade-git-daemonredhat-upgrade-git-daemon-debuginforedhat-upgrade-git-debuginforedhat-upgrade-git-debugsourceredhat-upgrade-git-emailredhat-upgrade-git-guiredhat-upgrade-git-instawebredhat-upgrade-git-subtreeredhat-upgrade-git-svnredhat-upgrade-gitkredhat-upgrade-gitwebredhat-upgrade-perl-gitredhat-upgrade-perl-git-svn
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