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Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 27, 2020· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2020-12278

CVE-2020-12278

Description

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. path.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS Alternate Data Streams. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1352.

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