CVE-2023-29007 is a critical vulnerability in Git, affecting versions prior to 2.40.1 and impacting products like Fedora and git-scm. It allows for remote code execution through arbitrary configuration injection when processing a specially crafted .gitmodules file with overly long submodule URLs. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.8 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, requiring user interaction, and leading to high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation or public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), the vulnerability has garnered significant community attention with 4 mentions and 1 media article, suggesting awareness among security researchers.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.30.9CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.31.0, < 2.31.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.32.0, < 2.32.7CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.33.0, < 2.33.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 2.34.0, < 2.34.8CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.