CVE-2025-48384: Git Link Following Vulnerability

High severity, CVSS 8.0. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2025-08-25. EPSS: 4.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. When reading a config value, Git strips any trailing carriage return and line feed (CRLF). When writing a config entry, values with a trailing CR are not quoted, causing the CR to be lost when the config is later read. When initializing a submodule, if the submodule path contains a trailing CR, the altered path is read resulting in the submodule being checked out to an incorrect location. If a symlink exists that points the altered path to the submodule hooks directory, and the submodule contains an executable post-checkout hook, the script may be unintentionally executed after checkout. This vulnerability is fixed in v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3, v2.48.2, v2.49.1, and v2.50.1.

Affected products

• Apple Xcode: before 26.0 (fixed in 26.0)
• Debian Debian Linux: version 11.0 only
• Git-Scm Git: before 2.43.7 (fixed in 2.43.7); from 2.44.0, before 2.44.4 (fixed in 2.44.4); from 2.45.0, before 2.45.4 (fixed in 2.45.4); from 2.46.0, before 2.46.4 (fixed in 2.46.4); from 2.47.0, before 2.47.3 (fixed in 2.47.3); from 2.48.0, before 2.48.2 (fixed in 2.48.2); …

Published 2025-07-08. Last modified 2026-09-24.