CVE-2026-100407 PUBLISHED

Git for Windows: git-credential-wincred OAuth Store Heap Overflow

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 04.11.2026 Updated: 04.11.2026

Git for Windows is the Windows port of Git. From 2.44.0.windows.1 until 2.55.0.windows.3, the git-credential-wincred store operation in contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c uses _scwprintf() to size a formatted wide-character credential buffer without space for the terminating NUL when both password and oauth_refresh_token are present. The operation also passes a byte count to _snwprintf_s() where a wide-character count is required, allowing the terminator to be written one WCHAR past the heap allocation before CredWriteW() persists the credential. The resulting fixed two-byte NUL overwrite can terminate the helper with Windows heap-corruption status and can cause git credential approve to report success even though the OAuth credential was not stored. This issue is fixed in version 2.55.0.windows.3.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
CVSS Score: 4.4

Product Status

Vendor git-for-windows
Product git
Versions
  • Version >= 2.44.0.windows.1, < 2.55.0.windows.3 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write CWE