Vulnerabilities
Misconfiguration
Runtime Security
Compliance
CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2008-5916

Published: Jan 21, 2009 | Modified: Nov 21, 2024
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
4.6 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu
MEDIUM
Additional information
NVDhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-5916
CWEhttps://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/264.html

gitweb/gitweb.perl in gitweb in Git 1.6.x before 1.6.0.6, 1.5.6.x before 1.5.6.6, 1.5.5.x before 1.5.5.6, 1.5.4.x before 1.5.4.7, and other versions after 1.4.3 allows local repository owners to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the diff.external configuration variable and executing a crafted gitweb query.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Git Git 1.4.3.1 (including) 1.4.3.1 (including)
Git Git 1.4.3.2 (including) 1.4.3.2 (including)
Git Git 1.4.3.3 (including) 1.4.3.3 (including)
Git Git 1.4.3.4 (including) 1.4.3.4 (including)
Git Git 1.4.3.5 (including) 1.4.3.5 (including)
Git Git 1.4.4 (including) 1.4.4 (including)
Git Git 1.4.4.1 (including) 1.4.4.1 (including)
Git Git 1.4.4.2 (including) 1.4.4.2 (including)
Git Git 1.4.4.3 (including) 1.4.4.3 (including)
Git Git 1.4.4.4 (including) 1.4.4.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0 (including) 1.5.0 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0-rc2 (including) 1.5.0-rc2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0-rc3 (including) 1.5.0-rc3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0-rc4 (including) 1.5.0-rc4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0.1 (including) 1.5.0.1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0.2 (including) 1.5.0.2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0.3 (including) 1.5.0.3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0.4 (including) 1.5.0.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0.5 (including) 1.5.0.5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0.6 (including) 1.5.0.6 (including)
Git Git 1.5.0.7 (including) 1.5.0.7 (including)
Git Git 1.5.1 (including) 1.5.1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.1.1 (including) 1.5.1.1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.1.2 (including) 1.5.1.2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.1.3 (including) 1.5.1.3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.1.4 (including) 1.5.1.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.1.5 (including) 1.5.1.5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.1.6 (including) 1.5.1.6 (including)
Git Git 1.5.2 (including) 1.5.2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.2.1 (including) 1.5.2.1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.2.2 (including) 1.5.2.2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.2.3 (including) 1.5.2.3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.2.4 (including) 1.5.2.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.2.5 (including) 1.5.2.5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3 (including) 1.5.3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3-rc4 (including) 1.5.3-rc4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3-rc5 (including) 1.5.3-rc5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3-rc7 (including) 1.5.3-rc7 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3.1 (including) 1.5.3.1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3.2 (including) 1.5.3.2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3.3 (including) 1.5.3.3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3.4 (including) 1.5.3.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3.5 (including) 1.5.3.5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3.6 (including) 1.5.3.6 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3.7 (including) 1.5.3.7 (including)
Git Git 1.5.3.8 (including) 1.5.3.8 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4 (including) 1.5.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4-rc0 (including) 1.5.4-rc0 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4-rc1 (including) 1.5.4-rc1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4-rc1.1136.g2794 (including) 1.5.4-rc1.1136.g2794 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4-rc2 (including) 1.5.4-rc2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4-rc3 (including) 1.5.4-rc3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4-rc4 (including) 1.5.4-rc4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4-rc5 (including) 1.5.4-rc5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4.1 (including) 1.5.4.1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4.2 (including) 1.5.4.2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4.3 (including) 1.5.4.3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4.4 (including) 1.5.4.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4.5 (including) 1.5.4.5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.4.6 (including) 1.5.4.6 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5 (including) 1.5.5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5-rc1 (including) 1.5.5-rc1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5-rc2 (including) 1.5.5-rc2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5-rc3 (including) 1.5.5-rc3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5.1 (including) 1.5.5.1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5.2 (including) 1.5.5.2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5.3 (including) 1.5.5.3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5.3-r1 (including) 1.5.5.3-r1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5.4 (including) 1.5.5.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.5.5 (including) 1.5.5.5 (including)
Git Git 1.5.6 (including) 1.5.6 (including)
Git Git 1.5.6.1 (including) 1.5.6.1 (including)
Git Git 1.5.6.2 (including) 1.5.6.2 (including)
Git Git 1.5.6.3 (including) 1.5.6.3 (including)
Git Git 1.5.6.4 (including) 1.5.6.4 (including)
Git Git 1.5.6.5 (including) 1.5.6.5 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0 (including) 1.6.0 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0-rc1 (including) 1.6.0-rc1 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0-rc2 (including) 1.6.0-rc2 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0-rc3 (including) 1.6.0-rc3 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0.1 (including) 1.6.0.1 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0.2 (including) 1.6.0.2 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0.3 (including) 1.6.0.3 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0.4 (including) 1.6.0.4 (including)
Git Git 1.6.0.5 (including) 1.6.0.5 (including)
Git-core Ubuntu devel *
Git-core Ubuntu hardy *
Git-core Ubuntu intrepid *
Git-core Ubuntu upstream *

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