Git for Windows is the Windows port of Git.
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 crede
Read at NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0)
- Vendor
- Git-For-Windows
- Product
- git
- CVSS v3.1
- 4.4 AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
- Fix
- available
- Weakness
- CWE-787
- Exposure class
- Developer platform
- NVD status
- Received
Why it ranks 15 (Routine)
- CVSS v3.1 4.4 medium
- Product class: developer platform
- Fix available
- Recency: items published within 24 hours gain 15, within 72 hours 6, within 7 days 2.
Links
- NIST National Vulnerability Database (CVE API 2.0) (nvd.nist.gov)
- CVE-2026-100408 on this site · NVD · CVE.org · Vulnpedia
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