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CVE-2019-1351

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-1351 is a high-severity tampering vulnerability affecting Git for Visual Studio, specifically versions 2017 and 2019, as well as related openSUSE products. The flaw arises from improper handling of virtual drive paths, allowing an attacker to manipulate data. With a CVSS score of 7.5, this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with no user interaction required, leading to high integrity impact. While there is no public exploit code available in Metasploit, Nuclei, or ExploitDB, the vulnerability has garnered some community discussion and media coverage, indicating awareness within the cybersecurity landscape.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 15.0, < 15.9.18CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2017:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 16.0, < 16.4.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:microsoft:visual_studio_2019:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
15.1CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:opensuse:leap:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.5HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
3.6
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
8.72%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
94.6%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0872 is in the 91st percentile among its peer group of 51,553 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (5)

microsoftpatch availablevia nvd_reference
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.9 (includes 15.0 - 15.8)
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 version 15.0
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.0
View patch
microsoftpatch availablevia msrc
Product: Microsoft Visual Studio 2019 version 16.4 (includes 16.0 - 16.3)
View patch

Vendor Advisories (2)

microsoft2019-Dec/CVE-2019-1351Moderate

Git for Visual Studio Tampering Vulnerability

Dec 10, 2019
redhatCVE-2019-1351

git: Git mistakes some paths for relative paths allowing writing outside of the worktree while cloning

Dec 10, 2019

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-01/msg00056.html
Third Party Advisory
lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
portal.msrc.microsoft.com / en-US/security-guidance/advisory/CVE-2019-1351
PatchVendor Advisory
public-inbox.org / git/xmqqr21cqcn9.fsf%40gitster-ct.c.googlers.com
security.gentoo.org / glsa/202003-30