CVSS 3.1
3.3 lowCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:NCVE-2026-113408 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal') in Git
Low (3.3) in git git. EPSS 0.3% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
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Path traversal in Git allows writing to arbitrary file via cloning and committing to bad repository
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.3% estimated probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days; 17th percentile. Scored 2026-11-13. A forecast for this CVE across the internet, not for your own systems.
- CWE
- CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory (Path traversal)
- OWASP Top 10
- A01:2025 Broken Access Control
- Published
- Modified
- Assigned by
- GitLab (CNA)
- NVD analysis
- Deferred: the NVD does not plan to analyze it
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
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Affected
Versions
From the CNA's record in the CVE List.
| Product | Affected |
|---|---|
| Git | 2.50.1 |
| Git | 2.51.2 |
| Git | 2.52.0 |
| Git | 2.53.0 |
| Git | 2.54.0 |
| Git | 2.55.0 |
| Git | 2.56.0 |
Fix and patched versions
- Alpine, Alpaquita: fixed package versions per release
Linux distributions
| Distribution | Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Debian | 12, 13, 14 | git | no fix listed | DEBIAN-CVE-2026-113408 |
| Ubuntu | 22.04:LTS, 24.04:LTS, 26.04:LTS and 4 more | git | no fix listed | UBUNTU-CVE-2026-113408 |
| Alpine | v3.23 | git | 2.52.1-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2026-113408 |
| Alpine | v3.24 | git | 2.54.1-r0 | ALPINE-CVE-2026-113408 |
| Alpaquita | stream | git | 2.56.1-r0 | BELL-CVE-2026-113408 |
From the distributions' data via OSV.dev: the Debian Security Tracker; Ubuntu Security Notices © Canonical Ltd., CC BY-SA 4.0; the Alpine secdb, CC BY-SA 4.0; BellSoft's OSV database, MIT. Modified: reformatted and linked to CVE records. Credits. On the distributions' own pages: Debian · Ubuntu · Alpine · Alpaquita.
Red Hat
Red Hat rates this Moderate.
This vulnerability is rated as Moderate severity because successful exploitation requires connecting to a malicious or compromised remote repository. In typical Red Hat deployments, Git client interactions are restricted to trusted upstream repositories and internal source control servers. While an attacker-controlled remote server could manipulate unborn branch advertisements to trigger unintended client-side file writes with the default files backend, this issue does not permit remote code execution or privilege escalation.
Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
| Product | Package | State | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 | git | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | git | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 | git | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 | git | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 | git | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat Hardened Images | git | Affected | |
| Red Hat OpenShift AI (RHOAI) | rhoai/odh-workbench-codeserver-datascience-cpu-py312-rhel9 | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8 | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 | openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 | openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | devspaces/code-rhel9 | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Dev Spaces | devspaces/pluginregistry-rhel9 | Fix deferred | |
| Red Hat Satellite 6 | rubygem-git | Fix deferred |
Contains Red Hat Security Data © Red Hat, Inc., licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: https://access.redhat.com/security/data. Modified: reformatted. Red Hat's page for CVE-2026-113408.
GitHub PoC (unverified)
Repositories on GitHub named after this CVE. Nobody has checked them and they are not scanned: some hold a working proof of concept, some nothing useful, and some malware made to look like one. Read the code before you run any of it.
- xssdoctor/git-cve-2026-113408-poc 0 stars, Python, created
Attack patterns (CAPEC)
- CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
- CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding Likelihood: High · Severity: High
- CAPEC-126 Path Traversal Likelihood: High · Severity: Very High
The attack patterns MITRE's CAPEC relates to this record's weaknesses, as MITRE names them. Credits.
History
- The NVD deferred its analysis
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