CVE-2026-53584
CVE-2026-53584: 1 tracked advisory record across Red Hat. Compare vendor sources and published fix guidance.
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1 advisory- Advisory severityLow3.5
Low [CVE-2026-53584] Submodule path traversal allows arbitrary directory creation
CVE-2026-53584Source published Source updated
libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, libgit2 does not reject traversal components in a submodule path loaded from.gitmodules. The affected src/libgit2/submodule.c paths include git_submodule_lookup and git_submodule_add_setup. A crafted repository can specify a path such as../escape-target, and applications that initialize the submodule can create directories outside the repository working tree. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.6 and 1.9.5. A flaw was found in libgit2. By crafting a malicious repository that specifies traversal components in a submodule path, applications initializing the submodule can be tricked into creating…
- Affected products in this advisory
- Red Hat Hardened Images
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
3 more entries in the full advisory.
- Source-reported affected versions
- < 1.8.6
- < 1.9.5
- Source-reported fixed versions
- 1.8.6
- 1.9.5
- libgit2-main-1.9.7-1.hum1
- RHSA-2026:59361
- Mitigation guidance
- Mitigation for this issue is either not available or the currently available options do not meet the Red Hat Product Security criteria comprising ease of use and deployment, applicability to widespread installation base, or stability.
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