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Ubuntu: USN-4220-1 (CVE-2019-19604): Git vulnerabilities

Severity
9
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Dec 10, 2019
Added
Dec 11, 2019
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

Description

Arbitrary command execution is possible in Git before 2.20.2, 2.21.x before 2.21.1, 2.22.x before 2.22.2, 2.23.x before 2.23.1, and 2.24.x before 2.24.1 because a "git submodule update" operation can run commands found in the .gitmodules file of a malicious repository.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-git
Title
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