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Low · 2.5 CVE-2024-45305 EUVD-2024-2874GHSA-v26r-4c9c-h3j6RUSTSEC-2024-0367

gix-path uses local config across repos when it is the highest scope

Published Sep 2, 2024 · Updated Sep 3, 2024 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

gix-path is a crate of the gitoxide project dealing with git paths and their conversions. `gix-path` executes `git` to find the path of a configuration file that belongs to the `git` installation itself, but mistakenly treats the local repository's configuration as system-wide if no higher scoped configuration is found. In rare cases, this causes a less trusted repository to be treated as more trusted, or leaks sensitive information from one repository to another, such as sending credentials to another repository's remote. In `gix_path::env`, the underlying implementation of the `installation_config` and `installation_config_prefix` functions calls `git config -l --show-origin` and parses the first line of the output to extract the path to the configuration file holding the configuration variable of highest scope. It is believed to be very difficult to exploit this vulnerability deliberately, due to the need either to anticipate a situation in which higher-scoped configuration variables would be absent, or to arrange for this to happen. Although any operating system may be affected, users running Apple Git on macOS are much less likely to be affected. This issue has been addressed in release version 0.10.10. All users are advised to upgrade.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Byron gitoxide < 0.10.10 —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 rust-gix-path 0.10.11-1 —
Debian 13 rust-gix-path 0.10.11-1 —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS rust-gix-path No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling cargo-audit 0.21.2-r1 —
Wolfi rolling cargo-c 0.10.23-r1 —
Wolfi rolling starship 1.22.1-r0 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
crates.io gix-path < 0.10.10 0.10.10 GHSA-v26r-4c9c-h3j6
crates.io gix-path >= 0.0.0-0, < 0.10.10 0.10.10 RUSTSEC-2024-0367

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