GHSA-3f7w-8rr8-f37f: gitpython (CVE-2026-73620)

Package	Ecosystem	Affected	Fixed in
gitpython	PyPI	<3.1.57	3.1.57

Machine-written summary

Summary written by Claude Haiku from the source advisory. Not reviewed by a person.

GitPython versions before 3.1.57 are vulnerable to arbitrary file overwrite through IndexFile.checkout() and arbitrary file read through TagReference.create(), because caller-supplied git options such as --prefix and -F are passed to git without the usual safety check. An attacker who can influence the arguments to these methods, or the repository content they operate on, could write repository file contents to chosen paths or read files outside the repository. Upgrade to GitPython 3.1.57, which is the fixed version.

Written 1 Nov 2026.

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Severity and exploitation

Score	Rating	CVSS	Vector	Source
7.2	High	4.0	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	CNA (VulnCheck)

CISA KEV Not listed.
EPSS 0.0057, the 47th percentile, on 14 Nov 2026: FIRST’s estimate of the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Timeline

31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC First seen by agentprime
31 Oct 2026, 14:10 UTC Confirmed by OSV

Sources

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