Git for Windows, the Windows port of Git, ships with an executable called `connect.exe`, which implements a SOCKS5 proxy that can be used to connect e.g. to SSH servers via proxies when certain ports are blocked for outgoing connections. The location of `connect.exe`'s config file is hard-coded as `/etc/connectrc` which will typically be interpreted as `C:\etc\connectrc`. Since `C:\etc` can be created by any authenticated user, this makes `connect.exe` susceptible to malicious files being placed there by other users on the same multi-user machine. The problem has been patched in Git for Windows v2.40.1. As a workaround, create the folder `etc` on all drives where Git commands are run, and remove read/write access from those folders. Alternatively, watch out for malicious `<drive>:\etc\connectrc` files on multi-user machines.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published: 2023-04-25T20:40:30.247Z

Updated: 2024-08-02T14:00:14.373Z

Reserved: 2023-03-29T17:39:16.143Z

Link: CVE-2023-29011

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2023-04-25T21:15:10.480

Modified: 2023-05-04T21:18:43.457

Link: CVE-2023-29011

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