Description
Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.
Published: 2017-10-14
Score: 5.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-6754 Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3829-1 Git vulnerabilities
History

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type Values Removed Values Added
Metrics epss

{'score': 0.00113}

epss

{'score': 0.00427}


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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Git-scm Git
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T19:50:16.471Z

Reserved: 2017-10-14T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-15298

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2017-10-14T22:29:00.200

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-15298

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Low

Publid Date: 2017-10-12T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-15298 - Bugzilla

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Weaknesses