CVE-2025-58158: Harness Allows Arbitrary File Write in Gitness LFS server

August 29, 2025

Open Source Harness git LFS server (Gitness) exposes api to retrieve and upload files via git LFS. Implementation of upload git LFS file api is vulnerable to arbitrary file write. Due to improper sanitization for upload path, a malicious authenticated user who has access to Harness Gitness server api can use a crafted upload request to write arbitrary file to any location on file system, may even compromise the server.

Users using git LFS are vulnerable.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-w469-hj2f-jpr5
github.com/harness/harness
github.com/harness/harness/commit/21c5ce42ae13740b1cad47706c2ec85e72cc8c20
github.com/harness/harness/security/advisories/GHSA-w469-hj2f-jpr5
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-58158

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