THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-82252 (HIGH 7.5) — gitoxide before 0.52.1 follows symlinks when reading the worktree .gitmodules file, allowing attackers to inject out-of-repository bytes into submodule metadata. Attackers can create a malicious repository with a symlinked .gitmodules pointing outside the repository tree, causing
[NVD] CVE-2026-82252 (HIGH 7.5) — gitoxide before 0.52.1 follows symlinks when reading the worktree .gitmodules file, allowing attackers to inject out-of-repository bytes into submodule metadata. Attackers can create a malicious repository with a symlinked .gitmodules pointing outside the repository tree, causing
CVE-2026-82252 CVSS: 7.5 HIGH Published: 2026-08-28T12:16:37.887
gitoxide before 0.52.1 follows symlinks when reading the worktree .gitmodules file, allowing attackers to inject out-of-repository bytes into submodule metadata. Attackers can create a malicious repository with a symlinked .gitmodules pointing outside the repository tree, causing gitoxide to parse arbitrary external files as submodu
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-82252cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-82252