Command Execution Vulnerability in Git on Linux and UNIX

CVE-2018-19486 · HIGH Severity

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

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.

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