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Google: dev-vcs/git: security update to 18244.1.61

low Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 450492

Description

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

 - In Git for Windows, the Windows port of Git, no localized messages are shipped with the installer. As a
 consequence, Git is expected not to localize messages at all, and skips the gettext initialization.
 However, due to a change in MINGW-packages, the `gettext()` function's implicit initialization no longer
 uses the runtime prefix but uses the hard-coded path `C:\mingw64\share\locale` to look for localized
 messages. And since any authenticated user has the permission to create folders in `C:\` (and since
 `C:\mingw64` does not typically exist), it is possible for low-privilege users to place fake messages in
 that location where `git.exe` will pick them up in version 2.40.1. This vulnerability is relatively hard
 to exploit and requires social engineering. For example, a legitimate message at the end of a clone could
 be maliciously modified to ask the user to direct their web browser to a malicious website, and the user
 might think that the message comes from Git and is legitimate. It does require local write access by the
 attacker, though, which makes this attack vector less likely. Version 2.40.1 contains a patch for this
 issue. Some workarounds are available. Do not work on a Windows machine with shared accounts, or
 alternatively create a `C:\mingw64` folder and leave it empty. Users who have administrative rights may
 remove the permission to create folders in `C:\`. (CVE-2023-25815)

Solution

Update the dev-vcs/git library and its related packages to version 18244.1.61 or later.

See Also

https://storage.googleapis.com/cos-oval-vulnerability-feed/cos-113.oval.xml.tar.gz

Plugin Details

Severity: Low

ID: 450492

Version: Revision 1.1

Type: Local

Published: 10/1/2026

Updated: 10/1/2026

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 1.2

Percentile: 0.01

Vendor

Vendor Severity: LOW

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 1

Temporal Score: 0.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:H/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2023-25815

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 2.2

Temporal Score: 2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/25/2023

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2023-25815