CVE-2025-27614

8.6 highEPSS 0.4%

High (8.6). EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Gitk is a Tcl/Tk based Git history browser. Starting with 2.41.0, a Git repository can be crafted in such a way that with some social engineering a user who has cloned the repository can be tricked into running any script (e.g., Bourne shell, Perl, Python, ...) supplied by the attacker by invoking gitk filename, where filename has a particular structure. The script is run with the privileges of the user. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.43.7, 2.44.4, 2.45.4, 2.46.4, 2.47.3, 2.48.2, 2.49.1, and 2.50.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

8.6 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 37% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-78
Published: 2025-07-10
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://github.com/j6t/gitk/commit/8e3070aa5e331be45d4d03e3be41f84494fce129
https://github.com/j6t/gitk/security/advisories/GHSA-g4v5-fjv9-mhhc
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/08/4

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