Bug 2379125 (CVE-2025-27614)

Summary: CVE-2025-27614 gitk: git script execution flaw
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: OSIDB Bzimport <bzimport>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Product Security DevOps Team <prodsec-dev>
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Version: unspecifiedCC: adudiak, crizzo, dfreiber, drow, jburrell, jmitchel, jtanner, kshier, omaciel, sdawley, stcannon, vkumar, yguenane
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There's a vulnerability in gitk where an user can be tricked to run malicious scripts supplied by the attacker when running gitk filename command. When successfully exploited this vulnerability may result in arbitrary code execution.
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-07-09 22:56:06 UTC
A Git repository can be crafted in such a way that a user who has cloned the repository can be tricked into running any script supplied by the attacker by invoking `gitk filename`, where `filename` has a particular structure.

Comment 3 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-21 14:45:25 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Via RHSA-2025:11462 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11462

Comment 4 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-22 12:00:26 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Via RHSA-2025:11533 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11533

Comment 5 errata-xmlrpc 2025-07-22 13:19:25 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2025:11534 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:11534

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2025-08-07 06:31:12 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  RHEL-8 based Middleware Containers

Via RHSA-2025:13276 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:13276