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CVE-2023-49568

Public on 2024-01-12
Modified on 2024-02-12
Description

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability.
This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.9
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 amazon-ssm-agent 2024-02-14 20:03 ALAS-2024-1920
Amazon Linux 2 - Core amazon-ssm-agent 2024-02-15 03:52 ALAS2-2024-2458
Amazon Linux 2023 amazon-ssm-agent 2024-02-15 02:52 ALAS2023-2024-526

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.9 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD CVSSv3 7.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H