CVE-2019-19604: Debian Linux

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 3.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Arbitrary command execution is possible in Git before 2.20.2, 2.21.x before 2.21.1, 2.22.x before 2.22.2, 2.23.x before 2.23.1, and 2.24.x before 2.24.1 because a "git submodule update" operation can run commands found in the .gitmodules file of a malicious repository.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only; version 10.0 only
• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 30 only; version 31 only
• Git-Scm Git: before 2.20.0 (fixed in 2.20.0); from 2.21.0, before 2.21.1 (fixed in 2.21.1); from 2.22.0, before 2.22.2 (fixed in 2.22.2); from 2.23.0, before 2.23.1 (fixed in 2.23.1); from 2.24.0, before 2.24.1 (fixed in 2.24.1)
• Opensuse Leap: version 15.1 only

Published 2019-12-11. Last modified 2026-06-17.