CVE-2026-82252: Gitoxidelabs Gitoxide

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

gitoxide before 0.52.1 follows symlinks when reading the worktree .gitmodules file, allowing attackers to inject out-of-repository bytes into submodule metadata. Attackers can create a malicious repository with a symlinked .gitmodules pointing outside the repository tree, causing gitoxide to parse arbitrary external files as submodule configuration and expose attacker-controlled name, path, and url values.

Affected products

• Gitoxidelabs Gitoxide: before 0.52.1 (fixed in 0.52.1); before 0.82.0 (fixed in 0.82.0)

Published 2026-08-28. Last modified 2026-08-29.