Critical

Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; m

  • Disclosed: 12.02.2020
  • Updated: 11.10.2026 12:20

Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine all versions before 08-12-2014; libgit2 all versions up to 0.21.2; Egit all versions before 08-12-2014; and JGit all versions before 08-12-2014 allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.

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PlatformPackageVulnerable versionsFixed in
Java / Kotlin (Maven) org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit < 3.5.3 3.5.3
Python (PyPI) mercurial < 3.2.3 3.2.3

References

CVSS score 9.8/10
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Weakness (CWE)
CWE-20
Platform
Java / Kotlin (Maven), Python (PyPI)
Package
org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit, mercurial
Disclosed
12.02.2020
Updated
11.10.2026 12:20

Sources and licenses

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - GHSA-6vvc-c2m3-cjf3 - CC BY 4.0

OSV / GitHub Advisory Database - PYSEC-2020-217 - PyPA Advisory Database; CC BY 4.0

Vulnerability history: mercurial

All published vulnerabilities of this package (Python (PyPI)), newest first. Shows whether this is a one-off slip or a package that needs watching.

All (18) in the archive
Total entries
18
First → latest
03.2015 05.2022
Without a fix
0
Exploited in attacks
0

Severity breakdown

  • Critical 6
  • High 9
  • Medium 3

Disclosures per year

  1. 2017: 4
  2. 2018: 5
  3. 2019: 1
  4. 2020: 1
  5. 2021: 0
  6. 2022: 2
  7. 2023: 0
  8. 2024: 0
  9. 2025: 0
  10. 2026: 0

earlier: 5

Severity:
  1. Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; m this entry
    Critical · 9.8 CVE-2014-9390 < 3.2.3 3.2.3

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