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SCA: security update for git-fastclone (GHSA-8gg6-3r63-25m8)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 422766

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - git-fastclone before 1.0.1 permits arbitrary shell command execution from .gitmodules. If an attacker can
 instruct a user to run a recursive clone from a repository they control, they can get a client to run an
 arbitrary shell command. Alternately, if an attacker can MITM an unencrypted git clone, they could exploit
 this. The ext command will be run if the repository is recursively cloned or if submodules are updated.
 This attack works when cloning both local and remote repositories. (CVE-2015-8968)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-8gg6-3r63-25m8

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 422766

Version: Revision 1.3

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/29/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.12

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.3

Temporal Score: 7.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8968

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 8/15/2018

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/20/2016

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2015-8968

BID: 81433

cwe: CWE-77