CVE-2018-19486

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 9.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-426

Affected software

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

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800Third Party Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=321fd82389742398d2924640ce3a61791fd27d60Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txtRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/106020Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1042166Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3800Third Party Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/commit/?id=321fd82389742398d2924640ce3a61791fd27d60Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/RelNotes/2.19.2.txtRelease Notes, Third Party Advisory
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201904-13
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1/Third Party Advisory

Timeline

Published: Nov 23, 2018
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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