git-fastclone Shell Metacharacter Injection Arbitrary Command Execution

git-fastclone before 1.0.5 passes user modifiable strings directly to a shell command. An attacker can execute malicious commands by modifying the strings that are passed as arguments to "cd " and "git clone " commands in the library...

Square Open Source: git-fastclone allows arbitrary command execution through usage of ext remote URLs in submodules

I recently discovered a security vulnerability in git that also affects other programs that manually reimplement submodule-like operations. The recent security update to git0 concerning git-remote-ext URLs in submodules affects git-fastclone similarly. This bug was patched in Git v2.6.1, v2.5.4,...