GHSA-239G-WHFQ-7XJ9 GitPython: Repository content can impersonate the git directory, leading to arbitrary code execution

Summary Repo.init decides which directory is the git directory by testing candidate paths in an order that considers the real .git last. Two earlier tests can be satisfied by ordinary tracked files. Git reserves only the literal name .git, so HEAD, objects/, refs/, config, gitdir, commondir and...

CVE-2026-41915: Incomplete List of Disallowed Inputs

OpenClaw before 2026.4.8 fails to remove git plumbing environment variables from the execution environment before host exec operations. Attackers can exploit this by setting GITDIR and related variables to redirect git operations and compromise repository integrity...

CVE-2023-29007

Git is a revision control system. Prior to versions 2.30.9, 2.31.8, 2.32.7, 2.33.8, 2.34.8, 2.35.8, 2.36.6, 2.37.7, 2.38.5, 2.39.3, and 2.40.1, a specially crafted .gitmodules file with submodule URLs that are longer than 1024 characters can used to exploit a bug in...

OS Command Injection

last-commit-log is vulnerable to OS command injection. An attacker is able to inject and execute arbitrary OS commands via the value of the GITDIR env variable...

CVE-2018-11235

In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16.x before 2.16.4, and 2.17.x before 2.17.1, remote code execution can occur. With a crafted .gitmodules file, a malicious project can execute an arbitrary script on a machine that runs "git clone --recurse-submodules" because...