CVE-2017-8386

high

Published 2017-06-01 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

8.8

Description

git-shell in git before 2.4.12, 2.5.x before 2.5.6, 2.6.x before 2.6.7, 2.7.x before 2.7.5, 2.8.x before 2.8.5, 2.9.x before 2.9.4, 2.10.x before 2.10.3, 2.11.x before 2.11.2, and 2.12.x before 2.12.3 might allow remote authenticated users to gain privileges via a repository name that starts with a - (dash) character.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

92%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
arch		fixed	`2.13.0-1`
sles		affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
debian	forky	fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
debian	sid	fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
debian	trixie	fixed	`1:2.11.0-3`
debian	8.0	affected
ubuntu	14.04	affected
ubuntu	16.04	affected
ubuntu	16.10	affected
ubuntu	17.04	affected
suse	42.1	affected
fedora	24	affected
fedora	25	affected
fedora	26	affected

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
git	git-shell	`-`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.