{"id":"CVE-2014-9390","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2014-9390","generatedAt":"2026-11-05T02:18:15.863Z","title":"Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine all versions before 08-12-2014; libgit2 all…","description":"Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine all versions before 08-12-2014; libgit2 all versions up to 0.21.2; Egit all versions before 08-12-2014; and JGit all versions before 08-12-2014 allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.","published":"2020-02-12T02:15:11.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T00:18:16.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.1","score":9.8,"severity":"CRITICAL","vector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["git-scm/git","mercurial/mercurial","apple/xcode","eclipse/egit","eclipse/jgit","libgit2/libgit2"],"epss":{"score":0.75597,"percentile":0.9952,"date":"2026-11-03","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 75.6%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1853266","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-and-221-and.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1031404","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204147","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/928429c5c96a701bcbcafacb2421a82602b36915","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://libgit2.org/security/","tags":["Product"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769667","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1853266","tags":["Broken Link"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://git-blame.blogspot.com/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-and-221-and.html","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew","tags":["Release Notes","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1031404","tags":["Third Party Advisory","VDB Entry"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://support.apple.com/kb/HT204147","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/blog/1938-git-client-vulnerability-announced","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/928429c5c96a701bcbcafacb2421a82602b36915","tags":["Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://libgit2.org/security/","tags":["Product"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8769667","tags":["Issue Tracking","Patch","Third Party Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9390","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}