CVE-2025-48384
Git allows arbitrary code execution through broken config quoting
- Published
- Jul 8, 2025
- Updated
- Feb 26, 2026
- Assigning CNA
- GitHub_M
- Evidence observed
- Aug 25, 2025
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 90.3%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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CISA Known Exploited
This CVE appears in the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog.
Summary
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.
Sources
38CVE-2025-48384 PoC
GIT vulnerability | Carriage Return and RCE on cloning
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