UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19486

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-19486
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19486.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-19486
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Published
2018-11-23T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:45:05Z
Severity
  • 9.8 (Critical) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

Git before 2.19.2 on Linux and UNIX executes commands from the current working directory (as if '.' were at the end of $PATH) in certain cases involving the run_command() API and run-command.c, because there was a dangerous change from execvp to execv during 2017.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:18.04:LTS / git

Package

Name
git
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/git@1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4?arch=source&distro=bionic

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4

Affected versions

1:2.*

1:2.14.1-1ubuntu4
1:2.15.1-1ubuntu2
1:2.17.0-1ubuntu1
1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.1
1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.3

Ecosystem specific 

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            "binary_name": "git-all"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4",
            "binary_name": "git-cvs"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4",
            "binary_name": "git-daemon-run"
        },
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            "binary_version": "1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4",
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        },
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            "binary_version": "1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4",
            "binary_name": "git-man"
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            "binary_version": "1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.4",
            "binary_name": "git-mediawiki"
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