CVE-2023-49568 — Maliciously crafted Git server replies can cause DoS on go-git clients

Description (CNA)

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. 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. Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

Affected (CNA)

Vendor / product	Versions
go-git / go-git	affected 5.11.0

CWE

CWE-20

References

https://github.com/go-git/go-git/security/advisories/GHSA-mw99-9chc-xw7r

ADP enrichment

CVE

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https://github.com/go-git/go-git/security/advisories/GHSA-mw99-9chc-xw7r

CISA-ADP

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