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medium 4.4

CVE-2026-100408 json

Git for Windows: git-credential-wincred Erase Path Heap Overflow

published 2026-11-04 5 d ago modified 2026-11-04 5 d ago also EUVD-2026-116937

cvss
4.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 1%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Git for Windows is the Windows port of Git. From 2.43.0.windows.1 until 2.55.0.windows.3, when a matching git:* credential exists in Windows Credential Manager and a git-credential-wincred erase input includes a password field, the operation in contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c allocates a buffer of exactly CredentialBlobSize bytes in match_cred_password() and then uses wcsncpy_s() to copy the corresponding number of wide characters plus a terminating NUL. The destination capacity is also supplied in bytes instead of WCHAR elements, allowing a fixed two-byte NUL write past the allocation before the password comparison determines whether CredDeleteW() should remove the credential; erase without a password field does not enter this comparison path. The helper can terminate with Windows heap-corruption status, and git credential reject can appear successful while the rejected credential remains stored. This issue is fixed in version 2.55.0.windows.3.

Patch / fix

Vendor advisories

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red hat product security vex CVE-2026-100408 updated cvss 4.4

git: Git for Windows: Denial of service via heap buffer overflow in git-credential-wincred

  • Red Hat Hardened Images git 2.52.0-1.el10
    affected: workaround, no fix available
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 git, gitk, gitweb, git-all, git-cvs, git-gui, +7 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 git, gitk, git-hg, git-p4, gitweb, git-all, +13 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 git, gitk, gitweb, git-all, git-gui, git-svn, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 git, gitk, gitweb, git-all, git-gui, git-svn, +9 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 git 2.52.0-1.el10 Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    +2 more products
    Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9 Red Hat Satellite 6 rubygem-git 1.18.0-1.el9sat
    under investigation

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Exploit prediction

0.12% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 1% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 4.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

Affected products

  • git-for-windows git

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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