Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Git's Recursive git clone

CVE-2018-17456 · HIGH Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Git before 2.14.5, 2.15.x before 2.15.3, 2.16.x before 2.16.5, 2.17.x before 2.17.2, 2.18.x before 2.18.1, and 2.19.x before 2.19.1 allows remote code execution during processing of a recursive "git clone" of a superproject if a .gitmodules file has a URL field beginning with a '-' character.

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