CVE-2017-1000117 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2017-1000117

A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to...

Vulnerability Description

A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed. Such a URL could be placed in the .gitmodules file of a malicious project, and an unsuspecting victim could be tricked into running "git clone --recurse-submodules" to trigger the vulnerability.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

Affected Software

git
Vulnerable Versions:
0, 2.8.0, 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5, 2.9.0, 2.9.1, 2.9.2, 2.9.3, 2.9.4, 2.10.0, 2.10.1, 2.10.2, 2.10.3, 2.11.0, 2.11.1, 2.11.2, 2.12.0, 2.12.1, 2.12.2, 2.12.3, 2.13.0, 2.13.1, 2.13.2, 2.13.3, 2.13.4, 2.14.0

Timeline

Official Publish: October 4th, 2017
Last Modified: August 5th, 2024
Added to House: July 20th, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

No CWE data available

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.