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CVE-2025-48384

High 8.0 Exploited in the wild (KEV)

Confirmed active exploitation — CISA KEV catalog

Name
Git Link Following Vulnerability
Added to catalog
Remediation due date (US federal)
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

Description

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. When reading a config value, Git strips any trailing carriage return and line feed (CRLF). When writing a config entry, values with a trailing CR are not quoted, causing the CR to be lost when the config is later read. When initializing a submodule, if the submodule path contains a trailing CR, the altered path is read resulting in the submodule being checked out to an incorrect location. If a symlink exists that points the altered path to the submodule hooks directory, and the submodule contains an executable post-checkout hook, the script may be unintentionally executed after checkout. This vulnerability is fixed in v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3, v2.48.2, v2.49.1, and v2.50.1.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1
8.0 (HIGH) Score source: CNA CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS — exploit probability
4% (percentile: 91) as of 1 November 2026
CWE
CWE-59, CWE-436

Affected products

git-scm: git; debian: debian linux; apple: xcode

References