CVE-2025-46835

Published: Jul 10, 2025Modified: Jun 17, 2026Deferred

8.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 1.8 / Impact: 6.0

Source: security-advisories@github.com (Secondary)

Description

Git GUI allows you to use the Git source control management tools via a GUI. When a user clones an untrusted repository and is tricked into editing a file located in a maliciously named directory in the repository, then Git GUI can create and overwrite files for which the user has write permission. 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 2.50.1.

Related CWEs

CWE-88

Improper Neutralization of Argument Delimiters in a Command ('Argument Injection')

The product constructs a string for a command to be executed by a separate component in another control sphere, but it does not properly delimit the intended arguments, options, or switches within that command string.

References (4)

https://github.com/j6t/git-gui/compare/dcda716dbc9c90bcac4611bd1076747671ee0906..a437f5bc93330a70b42a230e52f3bd036ca1b1da

Source: security-advisories@github.com

https://github.com/j6t/git-gui/security/advisories/GHSA-xfx7-68v4-v8fg

Source: security-advisories@github.com

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/08/4

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00003.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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