CVE-2026-78676

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-78676
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-78676.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2026-78676
Aliases
  • GHSA-284h-m62q-gf8w
Downstream
Published
2026-08-25T01:30:33.754Z
Modified
2026-08-25T04:02:04.922680684Z
Severity
  • 9.3 (Critical) CVSS_V4 - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
GitPython before 3.1.59 Remote Code Execution via Config Injection
Details

GitPython before 3.1.59 fails to safely re-serialize multi-line git-config values during write operations, corrupting dormant quoted values into injected directives like core.hooksPath. Attackers can craft config files with embedded newlines that become live git directives after any unrelated GitPython config write, enabling arbitrary code execution via hook invocation.

Database specific 
{
    "cna_assigner": "VulnCheck",
    "cwe_ids": [
        "CWE-88"
    ],
    "osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/78xxx/CVE-2026-78676.json"
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/gitpython-developers/gitpython

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/gitpython-developers/gitpython
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
66340d77aab9a7468f4aed3681d4ef1e3c0ec931
Database specific
Show details 
{
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "3.1.59"
        }
    ],
    "source": "AFFECTED_FIELD"
}

Affected versions

0.*
0.1.4
0.1.4-pre
0.1.5
0.1.6
0.2.0-beta1
0.3.0-beta1
0.3.0-beta2
0.3.1-beta1
0.3.1-beta2
0.3.2
0.3.2-RC1
0.3.2.1
0.3.3
0.3.4
0.3.5
0.3.6
0.3.7
1.*
1.0.0
1.0.1
1.0.2
2.*
2.0.0
2.0.1
2.0.2
2.0.3
2.0.4
2.0.5
2.0.6
2.0.7
2.0.8
2.0.9
2.1.0
2.1.1
2.1.10
2.1.11
2.1.12
2.1.13
2.1.2
2.1.3
2.1.4
2.1.5
2.1.6
2.1.8
2.1.9
3.*
3.0.0
3.0.1
3.0.2
3.0.3
3.0.4
3.0.5
3.0.6
3.0.7
3.0.8
3.0.9
3.1.0
3.1.1
3.1.10
3.1.11
3.1.12
3.1.13
3.1.16
3.1.17
3.1.18
3.1.19
3.1.2
3.1.20
3.1.22
3.1.23
3.1.24
3.1.25
3.1.26
3.1.27
3.1.28
3.1.29
3.1.3
3.1.30
3.1.31
3.1.32
3.1.33
3.1.34
3.1.35
3.1.38
3.1.4
3.1.40
3.1.41
3.1.42
3.1.43
3.1.44
3.1.47
3.1.48
3.1.49
3.1.5
3.1.50
3.1.51
3.1.52
3.1.53
3.1.54
3.1.55
3.1.56
3.1.57
3.1.6
3.1.7
3.1.8
3.1.9
Other
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Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-78676.json"