CVE-2019-1387

Publication date 10 December 2019

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An issue was found in Git before v2.24.1, v2.23.1, v2.22.2, v2.21.1, v2.20.2, v2.19.3, v2.18.2, v2.17.3, v2.16.6, v2.15.4, and v2.14.6. Recursive clones are currently affected by a vulnerability that is caused by too-lax validation of submodule names, allowing very targeted attacks via remote code execution in recursive clones.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
git	19.10 eoan	Fixed 1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.10.1
	19.04 disco	Fixed 1:2.20.1-2ubuntu1.19.04.1
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.5
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.7
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	8.8 · High
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	Required
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4220-1
Git vulnerabilities
10 December 2019