CVE-2025-21614 (GCVE-0-2025-21614)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-06 16:20 – Updated: 2025-08-26 19:48
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Title
go-git clients vulnerable to DoS via maliciously crafted Git server replies
Summary
go-git is a highly extensible git implementation library written in pure Go. A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.13. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients. Users running versions of go-git from v4 and above are recommended to upgrade to v5.13 in order to mitigate this vulnerability.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator (v2.0.3)
CWE
  • CWE-400 - Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
go-git go-git Affected: >= 4.0.0, < 5.13.0
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