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UK Cyber Defence
VulnerabilityModified

CVE-2017-1000117

A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed.

EXPLOIT ✓HIGH 8.8EPSS 77.8%

Does this matter?

EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 77.8%, higher than 100% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window.

Description

A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed. Such a URL could be placed in the .gitmodules file of a malicious project, and an unsuspecting victim could be tricked into running "git clone --recurse-submodules" to trigger the vulnerability.

CVSS 3.0
8.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
77.82% probability · 100th percentile
Public exploits
1 in Exploit-DB · verified · first 31 August 2017
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-601
Affected
git-scm/git
Source
cve@mitre.org
EPSS trend
0%40%80%21 September 2026: 75.79%22 September 2026: 77.82%27 October 2026: 77.82%21 September 202627 October 2026

EPSS moved from 75.8% on 21 September 2026 to 77.8% on 27 October 2026. The dashed line is the ten per cent mark our analysts treat as “patch before the next change window”.

Public exploits (1)

Entries in Exploit-DB that cite this CVE. Links go to the Exploit-DB page and to the file in the public repository; nothing is hosted here. A verified tick means the Exploit-DB team confirmed the exploit works against the stated version.

EDB-IDTitleTypePublishedVerified
EDB-42599source ↗Git < 2.7.5 - Command Injection (Metasploit)python · Metasploitremote31 August 2017yes

References

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.