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GHSA-M78C-XPG9-P5WW

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2026-08-28 12:30 – Updated: 2026-08-28 12:30

Details

gitoxide before 0.38.2 fails to validate carriage return characters in URL values passed to credential helpers. Attackers can supply URLs containing bare carriage returns to inject additional helper protocol fields and cause credential helpers to return credentials for attacker-specified hosts instead of the requested URL.

Severity

3.1 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

2.3 (Low)


                  
                    CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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CVE-2026-82249 (GCVE-0-2026-82249)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-28 10:49 – Updated: 2026-08-28 15:26

Title

gitoxide before 0.38.2 Credential Helper Protocol Field Injection

Summary

Severity

2.3 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:N/UI:P/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

3.1 (Low)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: poc Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-28 15:25 UTC

CWE

CWE-116 - Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

Assigner

VulnCheck mitre root

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide/security…	vendor-advisory
https://www.vulncheck.com/advisories/gitoxide-bef…	third-party-advisory

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
GitoxideLabs	gitoxide	Affected: 0 , < 0.38.2 (semver) Unaffected: 0.38.2 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:gitoxidelabs:gitoxide::::::::

Date Public

2026-07-15 00:00

Credits

hibrian827

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base model, served locally by ML-Gateway. They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.

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GHSA-M78C-XPG9-P5WW

CVE-2026-82249 (GCVE-0-2026-82249)

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