CVE-2020-12278

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CVSS 3.1

9.8 critical

EPSS

5%p92

Published

Apr 27, 2020 (Apr 27, 2020)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. path.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS Alternate Data Streams. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1352.

Vendors: libgit2 debian
Products: libgit2, debian linux
Weakness: CWE-706
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (5.1%)

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