Updated: 2025-08-20 03:17:14.20633
Description:
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.
| Links | NIST | CIRCL | RHEL | Ubuntu |
| Severity | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| CVSS Version 2.x | NONE | 0.0 |
| CVSS Version 3.x | MEDIUM | 6.3 |
| OS name | Project name | Version | Score | Severity | Status | Errata | Last updated | Statement |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RHEL 7 ELS | git | 1.8.3.1 | 6.3 | MEDIUM | Not Vulnerable | 2025-08-09 01:43:30 | ||
| Ubuntu 16.04 ELS | git | 2.7.4 | 6.3 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2025:1754648405 | 2025-08-09 01:43:31 | |
| Ubuntu 18.04 ELS | git | 2.17.1 | 6.3 | MEDIUM | Released | CLSA-2025:1754940060 | 2025-08-12 00:36:20 | |
| Ubuntu 20.04 ELS | git | 2.25.1 | 6.3 | MEDIUM | Ignored | 2025-07-22 00:48:28 | Ignored due to low severity |