CVE-2017-1000117: Git-Scm Git

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 77.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A malicious third-party can give a crafted "ssh://..." URL to an unsuspecting victim, and an attempt to visit the URL can result in any program that exists on the victim's machine being executed. Such a URL could be placed in the .gitmodules file of a malicious project, and an unsuspecting victim could be tricked into running "git clone --recurse-submodules" to trigger the vulnerability.

Affected products

• Git-Scm Git: up to and including 2.7.5; version 2.8.0 only; version 2.8.1 only; version 2.8.2 only; version 2.8.3 only; version 2.8.4 only; …

Published 2017-10-05. Last modified 2026-06-17.