Bug 1383312 - myrepos: Missing URL sanitization in webcheckout
Summary: myrepos: Missing URL sanitization in webcheckout
Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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URL:
Whiteboard: impact=important,public=20161007,repo...
Keywords: Security
Depends On: 1383313 1383314
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-10-10 12:07 UTC by Adam Mariš
Modified: 2019-06-08 21:30 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-08 02:59:57 UTC
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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.
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