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## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2023-22490"
idYear: 2023
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2023-02-14T19:47:56.863Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-08T21:14:06.502Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:56:49.724Z"
snapshot: {"id":"cve_2026-10-24_midnight_baseline","at":"2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z","source":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/releases/tag/cve_2026-10-24_0100Z"}
url: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-22490"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2023-22490.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2023-22490"
title: "Git vulnerable to local clone-based data exfiltration with non-local transports"
summary: "Git is a revision control system. Using a specially-crafted repository, Git prior to versions 2.39.2, 2.38.4, 2.37.6, 2.36.5, 2.35.7, 2.34.7, 2.33.7, 2.32.6, 2.31.7, and 2.30.8 can be tricked into using its local clone optimization even when using a non-local transport. Though Git will abort local clones whose source `$GIT_DIR/objects` directory contains symbolic links, the `objects` directory itself may still be a symbolic link. These two may be combined to include arbitrary files based on known paths on the victim's filesystem within the malicious repository's working copy, allowing for data exfiltration in a similar manner as CVE-2022-39253.\n\nA fix has been prepared and will appear in v2.39.2 v2.38.4 v2.37.6 v2.36.5 v2.35.7 v2.34.7 v2.33.7 v2.32.6, v2.31.7 and v2.30.8. If upgrading is impractical, two short-term workarounds are available. Avoid cloning repositories from untrusted sources with `--recurse-submodules`. Instead, consider cloning repositories without recursively cloning their submodules, and instead run `git submodule update` at each layer. Before doing so, inspect each new `.gitmodules` file to ensure that it does not contain suspicious module URLs."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003e= 2.39.0, \u003c 2.39.2","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.38.0, \u003c 2.38.4","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.37.0, \u003c 2.37.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.36.0, \u003c 2.36.5","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.35.0, \u003c 2.35.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.34.0, \u003c 2.34.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.33.0, \u003c 2.33.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.32.0, \u003c 2.32.6","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003e= 2.31.0, \u003c 2.31.7","status":"affected"},{"version":"\u003c 2.30.8","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"git","product":"git"}]

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