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UBUNTU-CVE-2026-64653 (CVE-2026-64653)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2026-08-06 22:18 – Updated: 2026-08-13 00:13 – Source website

Details

GitHub CLI (gh) is GitHub’s official command line tool. Prior to 2.97.0, some HTTP request URLs interpolate variable path components without percent encoding, allowing URL path metacharacters in attacker-controlled repository or resource values to make gh address a different API endpoint or resource than the user intended. This issue is fixed in version 2.97.0.

Severity

5.1 (Medium)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2026-64653	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-64653	REPORT
	https://github.com/cli/cli/commit/0c2eea6338a2323…	REPORT
	https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.97.0	REPORT
	https://github.com/cli/cli/security/advisories/GH…	REPORT

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CVE-2026-64653 (GCVE-0-2026-64653)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-08-06 17:51 – Updated: 2026-08-07 14:54

Title

GitHub CLI: Unescaped variable components in request URLs could allow path traversal

Summary

Severity

5.1 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2026-08-07 14:54 UTC

CWE

CWE-22 - Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Assigner

GitHub_M CNA under the mitre root

CNA scorecard C 72/100 over 7637 records in the last 180 days details

References

3 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/cli/cli/security/advisories/GH…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://github.com/cli/cli/commit/0c2eea6338a2323…	x_refsource_MISC
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.97.0	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
cli	cli	Affected: < 2.97.0

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