Description
A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability.
This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.


Published: 2024-01-12
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Remediation

Vendor Solution

An upgrade to v. 5.11 fixes this issue

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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2023-3251 A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients. Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-mw99-9chc-xw7r Maliciously crafted Git server replies can cause DoS on go-git clients
History

Tue, 17 Jun 2025 21:15:00 +0000

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{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Bitdefender

Published:

Updated: 2025-06-17T21:09:18.035Z

Reserved: 2023-11-27T14:21:51.157Z

Link: CVE-2023-49568

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2025-06-17T21:07:22.529Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2024-01-12T11:15:12.680

Modified: 2024-11-21T08:33:34.447

Link: CVE-2023-49568

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2023-12-24T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2023-49568 - Bugzilla

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