Security Advisory
CVE-2020-12279
9.8
CRITICAL
Vulnerability Description
An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short names. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1353.
Published Date
April 27, 2020
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory