CVE-2026-53587 PUBLISHED

libgit2 - Unauthenticated network-reachable heap out-of-bounds read in transports/smart_pkt.c:set_data

Assigner: GitHub_M
Reserved: 09.06.2026 Published: 20.08.2026 Updated: 20.08.2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS Score: 7.5

Product Status

Vendor libgit2
Product libgit2
Versions
  • Version < 1.8.6 is affected
  • Version >= 1.9.0, < 1.9.5 is affected

References

Problem Types

  • CWE-20: Improper Input Validation CWE
  • CWE-125: Out-of-bounds Read CWE
  • CWE-126: Buffer Over-read CWE
  • CWE-1284: Improper Validation of Specified Quantity in Input CWE