CVE-2015-8969
git-fastclone before 1.0.5 passes user modifiable strings directly to a shell command. An attacker can execute malicious commands by…
- 9.8CriticalCVSS base score
- 4.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 8.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
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.
Timeline
ID reserved
By hackerone
- 1 day later
· 1 day later
Published
- 8 years later
· 8 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.1 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 4.8% · top 8.0% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Affected products
git-fastclone ruby gem All versions before 1.0.5
- affected git-fastclone ruby gem All versions before 1.0.5
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- RubyGemsgit-fastcloneGHSA-mf6w-45cf-qhmp (opens in a new tab)
References
3
- 81433 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- https://github.com/square/git-fastclone/pull/5 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://hackerone.com/reports/105190 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-0413 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-mf6w-45cf-qhmp (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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