Bug 2539155

Summary:	CVE-2026-44243 GitPython: GitPython: Arbitrary file write via crafted reference paths [epel-all]
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora EPEL	Reporter:	Michalis Papadopoullos <mpapadop>
Component:	GitPython	Assignee:	Lubomír Sedlář <lsedlar>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	epel10	CC:	athoscribeiro, carlwgeorge, code, igor.raits, lsedlar
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Description Michalis Papadopoullos 2026-09-23 08:24:08 UTC

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GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories. Prior to version 3.1.48, a vulnerability in GitPython allows attackers who can supply a crafted reference path to an application using GitPython to write, overwrite, move, or delete files outside the repository’s .git directory via insufficient validation of reference paths in reference creation, rename, and delete operations. This issue has been patched in version 3.1.48.

Comment 1 Ben Beasley 2026-09-23 08:58:27 UTC

This is fixed in 3.1.48, which is already in all Fedora branches, EPEL10, and EPEL9. EPEL8 is at an old version affected by (at this point) dozens of known security issues, but can’t be straightforwardly updated.