CVE-2008-5516: Git

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The web interface in git (gitweb) 1.5.x before 1.5.5 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via shell metacharacters related to git_search.

Affected products

• Git Git: version 0.99.9j only; version 0.99.9k only; version 0.99.9l only; version 0.99.9m only; version 0.99.9n only; version 1.0.0 only; …
• Git-Scm Git: version 0.6.0 only; version 0.7.0 only

Published 2009-01-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.