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Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 : Git LFS vulnerabilities (USN-7977-1)

high Nessus Plugin ID 296749

Synopsis

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Ubuntu 18.04 LTS / 20.04 LTS / 22.04 LTS / 24.04 LTS / 25.10 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-7977-1 advisory.

 Ryota K discovered that Git LFS may leak login credentials in certain instances due to failing to check for URL-encoded characters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to learn sensitive information.
 (CVE-2024-53263)

 It was discovered that Git LFS could have its git lfs checkout and git lfs pull commands abused to write to any file on a user's system. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-26625)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected git-lfs and / or golang-github-git-lfs-git-lfs-dev packages.

See Also

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-7977-1

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 296749

File Name: ubuntu_USN-7977-1.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 1/27/2026

Updated: 1/27/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.0

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9.4

Temporal Score: 7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-26625

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.1

Temporal Score: 7.1

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.6

Threat Score: 6.2

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:20.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:25.10, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:24.04:-:lts, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:golang-github-git-lfs-git-lfs-dev, cpe:/o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:22.04:-:lts, p-cpe:/a:canonical:ubuntu_linux:git-lfs

Required KB Items: Host/cpu, Host/Ubuntu, Host/Ubuntu/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 1/26/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 1/14/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2024-53263, CVE-2025-26625

USN: 7977-1