CVE-2017-15298

MediumCVSS 5.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 5.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
https://github.com/Katee/git-bombExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/Third Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
https://github.com/Katee/git-bombExploit, Third Party Advisory
https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb/Exploit, Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Oct 14, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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