Advisories for Pypi/GitPython package

2024

Untrusted Search Path

GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories. There is an incomplete fix for CVE-2023-40590. On Windows, GitPython uses an untrusted search path if it uses a shell to run git, as well as when it runs bash.exe to interpret hooks. If either of those features are used on Windows, a malicious git.exe or bash.exe may be run from an untrusted repository. This issue has been patched …

2023

Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories. In order to resolve some git references, GitPython reads files from the .git directory, in some places the name of the file being read is provided by the user, GitPython does not check if this file is located outside the .git directory. This allows an attacker to make GitPython read any file from the system. This vulnerability is present …

Untrusted Search Path

GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories. When resolving a program, Python/Windows look for the current working directory, and after that the PATH environment. GitPython defaults to use the git command, if a user runs GitPython from a repo has a git.exe or git executable, that program will be run instead of the one in the user's PATH. This is more of a problem on how …

2022