CVE-2008-5916: Git

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gitweb/gitweb.perl in gitweb in Git 1.6.x before 1.6.0.6, 1.5.6.x before 1.5.6.6, 1.5.5.x before 1.5.5.6, 1.5.4.x before 1.5.4.7, and other versions after 1.4.3 allows local repository owners to execute arbitrary commands by modifying the diff.external configuration variable and executing a crafted gitweb query.

Affected products

• Git Git: version 1.4.3.1 only; version 1.4.3.2 only; version 1.4.3.3 only; version 1.4.3.4 only; version 1.4.3.5 only; version 1.4.4 only; …

Published 2009-01-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.