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High · 7.0 CVE-2026-72718 EUVD-2026-55653

goose: Arbitrary command execution in goose CLI via `goose review` via git core.fsmonitor

Published Aug 10, 2026 · Updated Aug 10, 2026 · Assigned by GitHub_M

Description

goose is general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine. Prior to 1.44.0, the `goose review` command runs the system `git` executable to gather the diff for review without stripping attacker-controlled Git configuration. A malicious repository whose `.git/config` sets [`core] fsmonitor = <command>` causes Git to execute that command on the host during the index refresh performed by `git diff HEAD`. The command runs before goose contacts a model and without a submitted prompt, model call, tool approval, or trust prompt. The context-gathering Git process is not sandboxed and is outside goose's tool-permission model. Arbitrary commands run with the privileges and environment of the user running goose, allowing file access or modification and exfiltration of environment secrets and provider API keys. The vulnerable Git invocations are built by git_command() in crates/goose-cli/src/commands/review/handler.rs and are used by touched_files() and collect_diff() for `git diff --name-only HEAD` and `git diff HEAD`. This issue is fixed in version 1.44.0.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
aaif-goose goose < 1.44.0 —

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
RHEL 10 goose 1.45.0-1.el10_2 RHSA-2026:80765
RHEL 9 goose 1.45.0-1.el9_8 RHSA-2026:80764

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