CVE-2025-48384 KEV
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On CISA KEV — known exploited in the wild, due 2025-09-15.
Description
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 8.0 (HIGH, v3.1) |
|---|---|
| Vector | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |
| EPSS | 4.11% — more likely to be exploited than 90% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-59 |
| On CISA KEV | yes — remediate by 2025-09-15 |
| Public exploit | none known |
| Published | 2025-07-08 |
| Last modified | 2026-09-24 |
CISA KEV
| Name | Git Link Following Vulnerability |
|---|---|
| Added | 2025-08-25 |
| Due | 2025-09-15 |
| Vendor / product | Git / Git |
| Ransomware use | none reported |
Affected (3)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| apple | xcode |
| debian | debian linux |
| git-scm | git |
References
- https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-vwqx-4fm8-6qc9
- http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2025/Sep/60
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/07/08/4
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/10/msg00003.html
- https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog?field_cve=CVE-2025-48384
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