Bug 1383312

Summary: myrepos: Missing URL sanitization in webcheckout
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Adam Mariš <amaris>
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-10-10 12:07:46 UTC
It was found that webcheckout passes the extracted URL to "git clone", without any sanitization. Malicious website operators or MitM attackers could exploit it for arbitrary code execution.

Original bug report:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=840014

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-10-10 12:08:12 UTC
Created myrepos tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1383313]
Affects: epel-7 [bug 1383314]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 02:59:57 UTC
This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.