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SCA: security update for git-fastclone (GHSA-mf6w-45cf-qhmp)

critical Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 422302

Description

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

 - git-fastclone before 1.0.5 passes user modifiable strings directly to a shell command. An attacker can
 execute malicious commands by modifying the strings that are passed as arguments to "cd " and "git clone "
 commands in the library. (CVE-2015-8969)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mf6w-45cf-qhmp

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 422302

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 3/28/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.15

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Critical

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2015-8969

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.8

Temporal Score: 8.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/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-2015-8969

BID: 81433

cwe: CWE-77