CVE-2024-52005

Publication date 15 January 2025

Last updated 26 February 2025

Ubuntu priority

Medium

Why this priority?

Git is a source code management tool. When cloning from a server (or fetching, or pushing), informational or error messages are transported from the remote Git process to the client via the so-called “sideband channel”. These messages will be prefixed with “remote:” and printed directly to the standard error output. Typically, this standard error output is connected to a terminal that understands ANSI escape sequences, which Git did not protect against. Most modern terminals support control sequences that can be used by a malicious actor to hide and misrepresent information, or to mislead the user into executing untrusted scripts. As requested on the git-security mailing list, the patches are under discussion on the public mailing list. Users are advised to update as soon as possible. Users unable to upgrade should avoid recursive clones unless they are from trusted sources.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
git 24.10 oracular
Vulnerable, fix deferred
24.04 LTS noble
Vulnerable, fix deferred
22.04 LTS jammy
Vulnerable, fix deferred
20.04 LTS focal
Vulnerable, fix deferred
18.04 LTS bionic
Vulnerable, fix deferred
16.04 LTS xenial
Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes

mdeslaur

as of 2025-02-26, there is no upstream fix for this issue. See mailing list discussion link.