libgit2 - Unauthenticated network-reachable heap out-of-bounds read in transports/smart_pkt.c:set_data
41Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendcvss 7.5epss 0.7%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDAug 20
1st PoCAug 15
exploitation probability
0.7%top 50% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, libgit2 performs a fixed-size strncmp in set_data in src/libgit2/transports/smart_pkt.c without first verifying that the smart-protocol pkt-line capability buffer contains 14 bytes. A malicious Git server can make bytes after the pkt-line complete object-format=, causing format_str to advance beyond the pkt-line and the following memchr length calculation to underflow. The resulting heap out-of-bounds walk can crash a client during the first refs-advertisement packet over HTTP, HTTPS, SSH, or the Git protocol. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.6 and 1.9.5.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Affected products
libgit2 · libgit2public PoCs found — 1
githubgithub.com/Alixploit22/CVE-2026-53587★ 0⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/2c0ce8c0132ac38ab0db28239462a671e2e5440ehttps://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/affda60c10fcef16723451c0d7dc71b71dc20ad3https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/commit/d7a9fb87f504434e9f45228678953c4fa56e7640https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v1.8.6https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/releases/tag/v1.9.5https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/security/advisories/GHSA-pm24-4jhq-3xvm