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Fix information unknown; no fixed version is derived here. Missing information does not prove that no fix exists.
Exploitation unknown; this catalogue does not assess exploitation.

## Source facts (JSON-quoted data)
CNA source text (English)
id: "CVE-2026-114145"
idYear: 2026
status: "PUBLISHED"
publishedAt: "2026-10-21T20:35:06.548Z"
updatedAt: "2026-10-23T15:08:48.132Z"
importedAt: "2026-10-24T01:57:50.502Z"
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-2026-114145"
json: "https://cveboard.org/cve/CVE-2026-114145.json"
sourceURL: "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-114145"
title: "GitPython validates a submodule's \".git\" path only after cloning into it (RCE)"
summary: "GitPython is a python library used to interact with Git repositories. Prior to 3.2.1, create_submodule() in git/objects/submodule/base.py accepts an attacker-influenced submodule path such as .git/hooks and invokes _clone_repo() before safely rejecting the destination. In 3.1.x, _validate_repo_path() does not exist and the call succeeds silently, while in 3.2.0 and later affected revisions the check in git/index/base.py raises ValueError only after the clone has written to disk and does not remove the planted file. An attacker-controlled submodule can therefore place an executable post-checkout hook that a later Git operation executes. Exploitation requires an application to accept an untrusted submodule path and a clone destination such as .git/hooks that is empty enough for Git to clone into it, which commonly means that default sample hooks are absent. This issue is fixed in version 3.2.1."
affected: [{"versions":[{"version":"\u003c 3.2.1","status":"affected"}],"vendor":"gitpython-developers","product":"GitPython"}]

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