CVE-2023-49568

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients. Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

Impact

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients.

Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

Patches

Users running versions of go-git from v4 and above are recommended to upgrade to v5.11 in order to mitigate this vulnerability.

Workarounds

In cases where a bump to the latest version of go-git is not possible, we recommend limiting its use to only trust-worthy Git servers.

Credit

Thanks to Ionut Lalu for responsibly disclosing this vulnerability to us.

References

• GHSA-mw99-9chc-xw7r

A denial of service (DoS) vulnerability was discovered in go-git versions prior to v5.11. This vulnerability allows an attacker to perform denial of service attacks by providing specially crafted responses from a Git server which triggers resource exhaustion in go-git clients. Applications using only the in-memory filesystem supported by go-git are not affected by this vulnerability. This is a go-git implementation issue and does not affect the upstream git cli.

Denial of service in github.com/go-git/go-git/v5 and gopkg.in/src-d/go-git.v4

Ionut Lalu discovered that go-git incorrectly handled certain specially crafted Git server responses. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2023-49568, CVE-2025-21614)

Ionut Lalu discovered that go-git incorrectly handled file system paths when using the ChrootOS implementation. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to perform a path traversal and create or modify arbitrary files, leading to remote code execution. (CVE-2023-49569)

It was discovered that go-git did not properly sanitize arguments when invoking git-upload-pack using the file transport protocol. An attacker could possibly use this issue to inject arbitrary flag values when interacting with local Git repositories. (CVE-2025-21613)

It was discovered that go-git did not properly verify integrity checks for pack and index files. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause go-git to process corrupted repository data, resulting in unexpected errors or an incorrect repository state. (CVE-2026-25934)