cve-2023-29012
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-04-25 20:44
Modified
2024-08-02 14:00
Severity ?
7.2 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Summary
Git CMD erroneously executes `doskey.exe` in the current directory, if it exists
References
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/git-for-windows/git/releases/tag/v2.40.1.windows.1Release Notes
security-advisories@github.comhttps://github.com/git-for-windows/git/security/advisories/GHSA-gq5x-v87v-8f7gVendor Advisory
Impacted products
git-for-windowsgit
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