Vulnerability CVE-2018-19486
Published: 2018-11-23

Description:
Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.

Type:

CWE-426

 (Untrusted Search Path)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Git-scm -> GIT 
Canonical -> Ubuntu linux 

 References:
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=321fd82389742398d2924640ce3a61791fd27d60
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txt
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/
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