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CVE-2020-12279

9.8 criticalEPSS 5.2%

Critical (9.8). EPSS 5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS
5.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 92% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-706
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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