August 25, 2025 · Applied Cybernetics Group
CVE-2025-48384 — Git Git
Git Link Following Vulnerability
- Added to KEV
2025-08-25- Federal due date
2025-09-15- Vendor
- Git
- Product
- Git
- EPSS
- 90.7th percentile (score 0.042, as of
2026-10-04) - NVD CVSS v3.1
- 8 (HIGH)
- Ransomware use
- Unknown
- Upstream
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-48384
CISA short description
Git contains a link following vulnerability that stems from Git’s inconsistent handling of carriage return characters in configuration files.
Required action
Apply mitigations per vendor instructions, follow applicable BOD 22-01 guidance for cloud services, or discontinue use of the product if mitigations are unavailable.
NVD description
Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. When reading a config value, Git strips any trailing carriage return and line feed (CRLF). When writing a config entry, values with a trailing CR are not quoted, causing the CR to be lost when the config is later read. When initializing a submodule, if the submodule path contains a trailing CR, the altered path is read resulting in the submodule being checked out to an incorrect location. If a symlink exists that points the altered path to the submodule hooks directory, and the submodule contains an executable post-checkout hook, the script may be unintentionally executed after checkout. This vulnerability is fixed in v2.43.7, v2.44.4, v2.45.4, v2.46.4, v2.47.3, v2.48.2, v2.49.1, and v2.50.1.