🛡️ CVE-2023-23618
🟠 CVSS 8.6 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-426 NVD
8.6
CVSS Score
0 Low4 Medium7 High9 Critical10

Description

Git for Windows is the Windows port of the revision control system Git. Prior to Git for Windows version 2.39.2, when `gitk` is run on Windows, it potentially runs executables from the current directory inadvertently, which can be exploited with some social engineering to trick users into running untrusted code. A patch is available in version 2.39.2. As a workaround, avoid using `gitk` (or Git GUI's "Visualize History" functionality) in clones of untrusted repositories.

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.6
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-426
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2023-02-14
Updated 2026-06-08
Modified 2024-11-21

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
git-for-windows — 2.39.2

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