CVE-2017-15298
5.5
MEDIUM
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.45%
Description
Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.
How to fix CVE-2017-15298
To remediate CVE-2017-15298, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 1:2.16.1-1 or later
Is CVE-2017-15298 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.4%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 1:2.16.1-1
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |