CVE-2018-13397 describes an argument injection vulnerability affecting Sourcetree for Windows versions 0.5.1.0 through 2.x, specifically when handling Git subrepositories within Mercurial repositories. This flaw allows an authenticated attacker, with commit access to a linked Mercurial repository, to achieve arbitrary code execution on the user's system. The vulnerability carries a high CVSS score of 8.8, indicating a critical impact with high confidentiality, integrity, and availability compromise, and low attack complexity. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 0.5.1.0, < 3.0.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:sourcetree:*:*:*:*:*:windows:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
No media coverage found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.