CVE-2023-23946: Git-Scm Git

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Git, a revision control system, is vulnerable to path traversal prior to versions 2.39.2, 2.38.4, 2.37.6, 2.36.5, 2.35.7, 2.34.7, 2.33.7, 2.32.6, 2.31.7, and 2.30.8. By feeding a crafted input to `git apply`, a path outside the working tree can be overwritten as the user who is running `git apply`. A fix has been prepared and will appear in v2.39.2, v2.38.4, v2.37.6, v2.36.5, v2.35.7, v2.34.7, v2.33.7, v2.32.6, v2.31.7, and v2.30.8. As a workaround, use `git apply --stat` to inspect a patch before applying; avoid applying one that creates a symbolic link and then creates a file beyond the symbolic link.

Affected products

• Git-Scm Git: before 2.30.8 (fixed in 2.30.8); from 2.31.0, before 2.31.7 (fixed in 2.31.7); from 2.32.0, before 2.32.6 (fixed in 2.32.6); from 2.33.0, before 2.33.7 (fixed in 2.33.7); from 2.34.0, before 2.34.7 (fixed in 2.34.7); from 2.35.0, before 2.35.7 (fixed in 2.35.7); …

Published 2023-02-14. Last modified 2026-10-08.