An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. checkout.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS short names. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1353.
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"sources": [
{
"published": "2020-04-27T17:15:13.470Z",
"id": "CVE-2020-12279",
"html_url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-12279",
"url": "https://services.nvd.nist.gov/rest/json/cves/2.0?cveId=CVE-2020-12279",
"modified": "2024-11-21T04:59:26.230Z",
"imported": "2025-10-21T17:12:53.517Z"
}
],
"license": "CC-BY-4.0"
}