$ cve CVE-2014-9390 JSON

CVE-2014-9390

9.8

CRITICAL · CVSS 3.1 · EPSS 75.6% (pctl 100)

Patch early

EPSS 75.6% — above the 10% action threshold.

Description

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.

Scoring

CVSS	9.8 (CRITICAL, v3.1)
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
EPSS	75.6% — more likely to be exploited than 100% of all CVEs
Weakness	CWE-20
On CISA KEV	no
Public exploit	none known
Published	2020-02-12
Last modified	2026-06-17

Affected (8)

Vendor	Product
apple	mac os x
apple	xcode
eclipse	egit
eclipse	jgit
git-scm	git
libgit2	libgit2
mercurial	mercurial
microsoft	windows

References

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