CVE-2020-12279

CriticalCVSS 9.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short names. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1353.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 9.8/10CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-706

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Apr 27, 2020
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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