VYPR
Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published Jan 12, 2024· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2023-49569

CVE-2023-49569

Description

A path traversal vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to create and amend files across the filesystem. In the worse case scenario, remote code execution could be achieved.

Applications are only affected if they are using the ChrootOS https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5/osfs#ChrootOS , which is the default when using "Plain" versions of Open and Clone funcs (e.g. PlainClone). Applications using BoundOS https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/go-git/go-billy/v5/osfs#BoundOS  or in-memory filesystems are not affected by this issue. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

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Affected packages

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PackageAffected versionsPatched versions
github.com/go-git/go-git/v5Go
>= 5.0.0, < 5.11.05.11.0
gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4Go
>= 4.0.0, <= 4.13.1

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31

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