CVE-2026-76222

GitPython before 3.1.58 fails to validate submodule names from .gitmodules files, allowing attackers to create Git repositories at arbitrary filesystem paths outside the intended clone directory. Attackers can craft malicious repositories with traversal sequences in submodule names that GitPython...

CVE-2025-68143 mcp-server-git's unrestricted git_init tool allows repository creation at arbitrary filesystem locations

Model Context Protocol Servers is a collection of reference implementations for the model context protocol MCP. In mcp-server-git versions prior to 2025.9.25, the gitinit tool accepted arbitrary filesystem paths and created Git repositories without validating the target location. Unlike other too...

CVE-2012-4506

Directory traversal vulnerability in gitolite 3.x before 3.1, when wild card repositories and a pattern matching "../" are enabled, allows remote authenticated users to create arbitrary repositories and possibly perform other actions via a .. dot dot in a repository name...