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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-82252

gitoxide before 0.52.1 follows symlinks when reading the worktree .gitmodules file, allowing attackers to inject out-of-repository bytes into submodul...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

gitoxide before 0.52.1 follows symlinks when reading the worktree .gitmodules file, allowing attackers to inject out-of-repository bytes into submodule metadata. Attackers can create a malicious repository with a symlinked .gitmodules pointing outside the repository tree, causing gitoxide to parse arbitrary external files as submodule configuration and expose attacker-controlled name, path, and url values.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Ubuntu:26.10 rust-gix

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

Ubuntu:26.04:LTS rust-gix

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]

References

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