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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.

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
CISA KEV
Not listed
Weakness
CWE-601
Affected
git-scm/git
Source
cve@mitre.org

Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA. Refreshed daily.