CVE-2023-49568 (GCVE-0-2023-49568)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2024-01-12 10:36 – Updated: 2025-06-17 21:09
VLAI?
Title
Maliciously crafted Git server replies can cause DoS on go-git clients
Summary
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.
Severity ?
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-20 - Improper Input Validation
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References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
go-git go-git Affected: 5.11.0
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Date Public ?
2024-01-12 10:16
Credits
Ionuț Lalu
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