Git vulnerabilitiesAnd the versions its exploited flaws hit.
Git is made by Git-Scm. We track 37 published vulnerabilities in it, across 657 versions. 1 of them is on the list of flaws known to be exploited, the newest added on 25 August 2025. If you run Git, check your version against the exploited flaws below and patch those first.
The most recent Git flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2025-48384, on 25 August 2025. We keep watching the known-exploited list.
Which versions of Git do the exploited flaws hit?
Each exploited flaw lists the versions it affects, usually as ranges. "before 2.43.7" means every version up to, but not including, 2.43.7. Find your version, then patch.
- CVE-2025-48384Exploited list, 25 Aug 2025
Git Link Following Vulnerability
before 2.43.72.44.0 to before 2.44.42.45.0 to before 2.45.42.46.0 to before 2.46.42.47.0 to before 2.47.32.48.0 to before 2.48.22.49.0 to before 2.49.12.50.0 to before 2.50.1
Which Git vulnerabilities are being exploited?
1 flaw is on the government list of vulnerabilities known to be exploited. These are the ones criminals are using now, so they go first, whatever their severity score says.
- 8.0Git Link Following Vulnerability
Git contains a link following vulnerability that stems from Git’s inconsistent handling of carriage return characters in configuration files.
Which Git flaws are most likely to be used?
Ranked by the latest exploit-likelihood forecast: the chance each flaw is used in an attack in the next 30 days. A high severity score on its own doesn't tell you that. Flaws shared by many other makers' products are left out.
- 97%CVE-2018-17456Critical
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...
- 89%CVE-2021-21300High
Git is an open-source distributed revision control system.
- 78%CVE-2017-1000117High
A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed.
- 56%CVE-2022-23521Critical
Git is distributed revision control system.
- 52%CVE-2023-25652High
Git is a revision control system. Prior to versions 2.30.9, 2.31.8, 2.32.7, 2.33.8, 2.34.8, 2.35.8, 2.36.6, 2.37.7, 2.38.5, 2.39.3, and 2.40.1, by feeding specially crafted input to `git apply --reject`, a path...
- 48%CVE-2018-11235High
In Git before 2.13.7, 2.14.x before 2.14.4, 2.15.x before 2.15.2, 2.16.x before 2.16.4, and 2.17.x before 2.17.1, remote code execution can occur.
- 44%CVE-2022-41903Critical
Git is distributed revision control system.
- 36%CVE-2017-14867High
Git before 2.10.5, 2.11.x before 2.11.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.5, 2.13.x before 2.13.6, and 2.14.x before 2.14.2 uses unsafe Perl scripts to support subcommands such as cvsserver, which allows attackers to execute...
- 18%CVE-2016-2324Critical
Integer overflow in Git before 2.7.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a (1) long filename or (2) many nested trees, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
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Git contains a link following vulnerability that stems from Git’s inconsistent handling of carriage return characters in configuration files.
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We track 37 published vulnerabilities listed under the name Git, across 657 versions. The most recent Git flaw added to the known-exploited list is CVE-2025-48384, on 25 August 2025.
1 is on the list of flaws known to be exploited. The most recently added is CVE-2025-48384.
Each flaw names its own versions, usually as ranges. The newest, CVE-2025-48384, affects before 2.43.7, 2.44.0 to before 2.44.4, 2.45.0 to before 2.45.4, 2.46.0 to before 2.46.4 and more. The versions for every exploited flaw are listed on this page.
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