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libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, li…

Medium CVSS 4.3
CVECVE-2026-53584
First seen2026-08-20 20:31 UTC
Disclosed2026-08-20 19:16 UTC
Last updated2026-08-20 20:31 UTC
Channel statusauto

Summary

libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, libgit2 does not reject traversal components in a submodule path loaded from .gitmodules. The affected src/libgit2/submodule.c paths include git_submodule_lookup and git_submodule_add_setup. A crafted repository can specify a path such as ../escape-target, and applications that initialize the submodul…

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