CVE record · CVE-2022-41903

Integer overflow in `git archive`, `git log --format` leading to RCE in git

CVSS 9.8 CriticalCriticalEPSS 0.44 · 98th percentile

Critical, because:

CVSS score 9.8: 9.0 or more.
CVSS score 9.8 (7.0 or more) and EPSS 0.44 (0.1 or more): a high score and a real chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Published by the CVE Program (CNA: GitHub_M) at 17 Jan 2023, 22:17 UTC. agentprime has not analysed this yet, so whether it affects any app is not known. This CVE names a vendor and product rather than a package, so the lockfile check doesn’t match it.

Affected products, as the CNA wrote them
Vendor	Product	Versions
git	git	affected < 2.30.7 affected >= 2.31.0, < 2.31.6 affected >= 2.32.0, < 2.32.5 affected >= 2.33.0, < 2.33.6 affected >= 2.34.0, < 2.34.6 affected >= 2.35.0, < 2.35.6 affected >= 2.36.0, < 2.36.4 affected >= 2.37.0, < 2.37.5 affected >= 2.38.0, < 2.38.3 affected = 2.39.0

Identifiers: CVE-2022-41903
CNA: GitHub_M
Weakness (CWE): CWE-190
Tags: git
Memory corruption
Published: 17 Jan 2023
Updated: 10 Mar 2025

Not analysed yet

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
9.8	Critical	3.1	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CNA (GitHub_M)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.44, the 98th percentile, on 5 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

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Sources

References from the CNA

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