Vulnerability CVE-2023-49568


Published: 2024-01-12

Description:
A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability.
This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.


Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

 References:
https://github.com/go-git/go-git/security/advisories/GHSA-mw99-9chc-xw7r

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