CVE-2026-53584 - libgit2: Submodule path traversal
Brief
CVE ID : CVE-2026-53584
Published : Aug. 20, 2026, 6:35 p. m.
- 34 minutes ago
Description : 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.
- 6 and 1.
- 5, libgit2 does not reject traversal components in a submodule path loaded from . gitmodules. The affected src/libgit2/submodule. c paths include git_submodule_lookup and git_submodule_add_setup.
A crafted repository can specify a path such as .. /escape-target, and applications that initialize the submodule can create directories outside the repository working tree. This issue is fixed in versions 1.
- 6 and 1.
- 5.
Severity: 0.0
- NA
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