CVE-2026-82253: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory

gitoxide Rust crates gix = 0.72.0 and gix-validate = 0.10.0 contains a path traversal vulnerability. The submodule name validation function in gix-validate only checks the first occurrence of '..' via name.findb"..", allowing crafted names such as 'a..b/../../../.git/' to bypass the check;...

Git Submodule Arbitrary Code Execution

These releases fix a security flaw CVE-2018-17456, which allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious .gitmodules file in a project cloned with --recurse-submodules. When running "git clone --recurse-submodules", Git parses the supplied .gitmodules file for a URL field an...

Git Submodule - Arbitrary Code Execution (PoC)

These releases fix a security flaw CVE-2018-17456, which allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious .gitmodules file in a project cloned with --recurse-submodules. When running "git clone --recurse-submodules", Git parses the supplied .gitmodules file for a URL field an...