High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 8, 2019· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2018-20234

Description

There was an argument injection vulnerability in Atlassian Sourcetree for macOS from version 1.2 before version 3.1.1 via filenames in Mercurial repositories. A remote attacker with permission to commit to a Mercurial repository linked in Sourcetree for macOS is able to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system.

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Affected products

Atlassian/Sourcetree2 versions
cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:sourcetree:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:a:atlassian:sourcetree:*:*:*:*:*:macos:*:*range: >=1.2.0,<3.1.1
- (no CPE)range: <3.1.1
Atlassian/Sourcetree for macOScpe-rescue
Range: 1.2

Patches

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References

jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREE-6391nvdIssue TrackingVendor Advisory
packetstormsecurity.com/files/152173/Sourcetree-Git-Arbitrary-Code-Execution-URL-Handling.htmlnvd
www.securityfocus.com/bid/107414nvd
seclists.org/bugtraq/2019/Mar/30nvd

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