CVE-2017-14867: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Git before 2.10.5, 2.11.x before 2.11.4, 2.12.x before 2.12.5, 2.13.x before 2.13.6, and 2.14.x before 2.14.2 uses unsafe Perl scripts to support subcommands such as cvsserver, which allows attackers to execute arbitrary OS commands via shell metacharacters in a module name. The vulnerable code is reachable via git-shell even without CVS support.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 8.0 only; version 9.0 only
• Git-Scm Git: up to and including 2.10.4; version 2.11.0 only; version 2.11.1 only; version 2.11.2 only; version 2.11.3 only; version 2.12.0 only; …

Published 2017-09-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.