# CVE-2025-48384: Git allows arbitrary code execution through broken config quoting

> CVE-2025-48384: Git allows arbitrary code execution through broken config quoting. CVSS 8.1 (CVSS 3.1), in CISA KEV.

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-48384
Last updated: 2026-09-24T13:10:00Z

- Published: 2025-07-08 18:23 UTC · Updated: 2026-09-24 13:10 UTC · Assigner: GitHub\_M
- CVSS: 8.1 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: High · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 4.4%, 91th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: yes, added 2025-08-25, federal due date 2025-09-15, ransomware use: Unknown
- CWE: CWE-436, CWE-59

## Description

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.

## CISA required action

Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.

## Affected vendors and products

- git: git

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-48384)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48384)
- [https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-vwqx-4fm8-6qc9](https://github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-vwqx-4fm8-6qc9)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-48384 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-48384.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-48384 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T04:04:10.678Z