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🛡️ CVE-2024-32465 — debian-linux

🟠 CVSS 8.0 — High ✅ No Known Exploit CWE-22 NVD
8.0
CVSS Score
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Description

Git's protections for cloning untrusted repositories can be bypassed

Git is a revision control system. The Git project recommends to avoid working in untrusted repositories, and instead to clone it first with git clone --no-local to obtain a clean copy. Git has specific protections to make that a safe operation even with an untrusted source repository, but vulnerabilities allow those protections to be bypassed. In the context of cloning local repositories owned by other users, this vulnerability has been covered in CVE-2024-32004. But there are circumstances where the fixes for CVE-2024-32004 are not enough: For example, when obtaining a .zip file containing a full copy of a Git repository, it should not be trusted by default to be safe, as e.g. hooks could be configured to run within the context of that repository. The problem has been patched in versions 2.45.1, 2.44.1, 2.43.4, 2.42.2, 2.41.1, 2.40.2, and 2.39.4. As a workaround, avoid using Git in repositories that have been obtained via archives from untrusted sources.

How this vulnerability can be exploited

This issue can be reached with physical access to the device, attack complexity is low, an attacker needs no privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.

CVSS metrics in full

The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

  • Attack vector: Physical — the attacker has to touch the device.
  • Attack complexity: Low — the attack works reliably, with no preparation.
  • Privileges required: None — an unauthenticated stranger can try it.
  • User interaction: Required — someone has to click, open or visit something.
  • Scope: Changed — a successful attack reaches components beyond the vulnerable one.
  • Confidentiality impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Integrity impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.
  • Availability impact: High — total loss, or loss the attacker controls.

Weakness class

CVE-2024-32465 is classified as CWE-22: Path Traversal. A file path built from user input is not confined to the intended directory, letting an attacker reach files elsewhere on the filesystem.

Affected software

CVE-2024-32465 is recorded against 3 packages.

  • debian-linux
  • fedora
  • git

Timeline and source

Published on 14 May 2024 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. A vendor advisory or fix has been published. Record sourced from NVD.

References

www.openwall.com
git-scm.com
git-scm.com
github.com
github.com
lists.debian.org
lists.fedoraproject.org
www.openwall.com
git-scm.com
git-scm.com
github.com
github.com
lists.debian.org
lists.debian.org
lists.fedoraproject.org

Other advisories for this package

debian-linux has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:

Same weakness in other software

These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-22: Path Traversal) in other software:

CVE-2024-32465 on other distributions

Each distribution ships its own build and its own fixed version. Pick the one you run:

Details

Severity HIGH
CVSS Score 8.0
CVSS Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE CWE-22
Public Exploit ✅ No
Source NVD
Published 2024-05-14
Updated 2026-08-20
Modified 2026-06-17

Affected Packages

Software From version Fixed in
debian-linux — —
fedora — —
git — —

References

Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/14/2
Technical Description https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/05/14/2
Technical Description https://git-scm.com/docs/git-clone

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