CVE-2020-11008
Malicious URLs can still cause Git to send a stored credential to the wrong server
02 Description
Malicious URLs can still cause Git to send a stored credential to the wrong server
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 3.86% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 89.7% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 7.5 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2020-04-21 18:40Z6 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-04 11:21Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2020-03-30
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Medium (CVSS 4.0)
- CNA CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 915c5ba2fa708bf93d01f7adc408f9a2daec634b8e5bd4c797766473551e336e
05 Affected products
06 References
- github.comhttps://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-hjc9-x69f-jqj7
- github.comhttps://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-qm7j-c969-7j4q
- github.comhttps://github.com/git/git/commit/c44088ecc4b0722636e0a305f9608d3047197282
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-202004-13https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/202004-13
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20200424 [SECURITY] [DLA 2182-1] git security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/04/msg00015.html
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-f6b3b6fb18https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/PN3FUOXKX3AXTULYV53ACABER2W2FSOU/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-b2a2c830cfhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/MOCTR2SEHCPSCOVUQJAGFPGKFMI2VE6V/
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-4334-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/4334-1/
- lists.fedoraproject.orgFEDORA-2020-4e093619bbhttps://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/74Q7WVJ6FKLIN62VS2JD2XCNWK5TNKOW/
- lists.opensuse.orgopenSUSE-SU-2020:0598http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html
- support.apple.comhttps://support.apple.com/kb/HT211183
- seclists.org20200522 APPLE-SA-2020-05-20-1 Xcode 11.5http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2020/May/41
07 Fixed in
Arch Linux
- git Fixed in 2.26.2-1
Source: Arch Linux Security Tracker, the Arch Linux security team. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 12
- git Fixed in 1:2.26.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- git Fixed in 1:2.26.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- git Fixed in 1:2.26.2-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- git Fixed in 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.9
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- git Fixed in 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.7
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.