CVE-2019-1387: Git-Scm Git

High severity, CVSS 8.8. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An issue was found in Git before v2.24.1, v2.23.1, v2.22.2, v2.21.1, v2.20.2, v2.19.3, v2.18.2, v2.17.3, v2.16.6, v2.15.4, and v2.14.6. Recursive clones are currently affected by a vulnerability that is caused by too-lax validation of submodule names, allowing very targeted attacks via remote code execution in recursive clones.

Affected products

• Git-Scm Git: from 2.14.0, before 2.14.6 (fixed in 2.14.6); from 2.15.0, before 2.15.4 (fixed in 2.15.4); from 2.16.0, before 2.16.6 (fixed in 2.16.6); from 2.17.0, before 2.17.3 (fixed in 2.17.3); from 2.18.0, before 2.18.2 (fixed in 2.18.2); from 2.19.0, before 2.19.3 (fixed in 2.19.3); …

Published 2019-12-18. Last modified 2026-06-17.