CVE-2020-5260

CVE-2020-5260 affects Git by newline-injection in the credential helper protocol, enabling a crafted URL to exfiltrate credentials from one host to another. Affected Git releases were patched in April 2020; fixes are in 2.17.4, 2.18.3, 2.19.4, 2.20.3, 2.21.2, 2.22.3, 2.23.2, 2.24.2, 2.25.3, 2.26....

CVE-2020-5260

Affected versions of Git have a vulnerability whereby Git can be tricked into sending private credentials to a host controlled by an attacker. Git uses external "credential helper" programs to store and retrieve passwords or other credentials from secure storage provided by the operating system...