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Medium · 4.4 CVE-2026-100407 EUVD-2026-116936

Git for Windows: git-credential-wincred OAuth Store Heap Overflow

Published Nov 4, 2026 · Updated Nov 5, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

Git for Windows is the Windows port of Git. From 2.44.0.windows.1 until 2.55.0.windows.3, the git-credential-wincred store operation in contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c uses _scwprintf() to size a formatted wide-character credential buffer without space for the terminating NUL when both password and oauth_refresh_token are present. The operation also passes a byte count to _snwprintf_s() where a wide-character count is required, allowing the terminator to be written one WCHAR past the heap allocation before CredWriteW() persists the credential. The resulting fixed two-byte NUL overwrite can terminate the helper with Windows heap-corruption status and can cause git credential approve to report success even though the OAuth credential was not stored. This issue is fixed in version 2.55.0.windows.3.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
git-for-windows git >= 2.44.0.windows.1, < 2.55.0.windows.3 —

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
Ubuntu 26.10 git No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS git No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS git No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS git No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS git No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS git No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS git No fix yet —

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 git No fix yet —

Advisories 1

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