CVE-2018-13397
There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows from version 0.5.1.0...
There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows from version 0.5.1.0 before version 3.0.0 via Git subrepositories in Mercurial repositories. An attacker with permission to commit to a Mercurial repository linked in Sourcetree for Windows is able to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system.
Attack profile
How easy it is to exploit
- Attack vector
- Network
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
What an attacker can affect
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Exploit likelihood
What each source reports
NVD Score used
There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows from version 0.5.1.0 before version 3.0.0 via Git subrepositories in Mercurial repositories. An attacker with permission to commit to a Mercurial repository linked in Sourcetree for Windows is able to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system.
- Record
CVE-2018-13397- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - CVSS 2.0
- 9.0 High
AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C - Updated
- 2026-11-02
CVE List No score
There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows from version 0.5.1.0 before version 3.0.0 via Git subrepositories in Mercurial repositories. An attacker with permission to commit to a Mercurial repository linked in Sourcetree for Windows is able to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system.
- Record
CVE-2018-13397- Updated
- 2026-11-02
EUVDEUVD-2018-5340 No score
There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows from version 0.5.1.0 before version 3.0.0 via Git subrepositories in Mercurial repositories. An attacker with permission to commit to a Mercurial repository linked in Sourcetree for Windows is able to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system.
- Record
EUVD-2018-5340- Updated
- 2026-11-03
GitHub AdvisoriesGHSA-5jh9-6vv3-xc89
There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows from version 0.5.1.0...
There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows from version 0.5.1.0 before version 3.0.0 via Git subrepositories in Mercurial repositories. An attacker with permission to commit to a Mercurial repository linked in Sourcetree for Windows is able to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system.
- Record
GHSA-5jh9-6vv3-xc89- CVSS 3.0
- 8.8 High
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H - Updated
- 2026-11-02
Affected products
History
| Recorded | Changed | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| aliases | EUVD | |
| first indexed | CVE List, GitHub Advisories, NVD |
Dates are when Every CVE recorded each change. Upstream dates may differ.
In short
CVE-2018-13397 is a high vulnerability (CVSS 8.8) in Atlassian Sourcetree, published November 5, 2018. No source lists public exploit code. EPSS puts the chance of exploitation in the next 30 days at 1.95%, the 80th percentile. No source names a fixed version.