1 Git v2.17.5 Release Notes
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4 This release is to address a security issue: CVE-2020-11008
9 * With a crafted URL that contains a newline or empty host, or lacks
10 a scheme, the credential helper machinery can be fooled into
11 providing credential information that is not appropriate for the
12 protocol in use and host being contacted.
14 Unlike the vulnerability CVE-2020-5260 fixed in v2.17.4, the
15 credentials are not for a host of the attacker's choosing; instead,
16 they are for some unspecified host (based on how the configured
17 credential helper handles an absent "host" parameter).
19 The attack has been made impossible by refusing to work with
20 under-specified credential patterns.
22 Credit for finding the vulnerability goes to Carlo Arenas.