CVE-2024-50349 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Git, where specially crafted URLs containing ANSI escape sequences can be used to trick users into providing credentials to malicious sites. This social engineering attack leverages Git's terminal prompt for credentials, which decodes URL-encoded parts verbatim. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.7 (Medium), indicating a network-based attack with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and resulting in low integrity impact (credential theft). While not actively exploited in the wild and lacking public exploit code, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, suggesting awareness among security researchers. Users are advised to upgrade to patched Git versions (v2.48.1, v2.47.2, v2.46.3, v2.45.3, v2.44.3, v2.43.6, v2.42.4, v2.41.3, and v2.40.4) or avoid cloning from untrusted URLs.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
11.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:11.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
< 2.40.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.41.0, < 2.41.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.42.0, < 2.42.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.43.0, < 2.43.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 4.0
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:A/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:L/SI:L/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
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