CVE-2014-9390

highpriority · attend · 75EPSS 0.756 · 100 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

1 exploit · weaponized

Likely / severe?

75.6% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

Is it mine?

15 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine all versions before 08-12-2014; libgit2 all versions up to 0.21.2; Egit all versions before 08-12-2014; and JGit all versions before 08-12-2014 allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · high–critical · 7.5–9.8

v2.07.5highAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 10 · impact 6.4

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 3.9 · impact 5.9

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.19.8criticalCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimaryCWE-20US

exploits (1)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/multi/http/git_client_command_execMalicious Git and Mercurial HTTP Server For CVE-2014-9390weaponized · metasploit

affected products (15)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
apple xcode≤ 6.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apple:xcode:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apple xcode= 6.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apple:xcode:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse egit< 08-12-2014nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:egit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jgit< 3.4.2nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jgit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
eclipse jgit3.5.0 → 3.5.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:eclipse:jgit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
git-scm git< 1.8.5.6nvdUScpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
git-scm git1.9.0 → 1.9.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
git-scm git2.0.0 → 2.0.5nvdUScpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
git-scm git2.1.0 → 2.1.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
git-scm git2.2.0 → 2.2.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:git-scm:git:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
libgit2 libgit2< 0.21.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:libgit2:libgit2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
mercurial mercurial< 3.2.3nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mercurial:mercurial:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Maven org.eclipse.jgit:org.eclipse.jgit< 3.5.3osvUSpkg:maven/org.eclipse.jgit/org.eclipse.jgit
PyPI mercurial< 3.2.3osvUSpkg:pypi/mercurial

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-6vvc-c2m3-cjf3JGit Improper Input Validation vulnerability2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine; libgit2; Egit; and JGit allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.
PYSEC-2020-2172020-02-12vendor · osvUS
Git before 1.8.5.6, 1.9.x before 1.9.5, 2.0.x before 2.0.5, 2.1.x before 2.1.4, and 2.2.x before 2.2.1 on Windows and OS X; Mercurial before 3.2.3 on Windows and OS X; Apple Xcode before 6.2 beta 3; mine all versions before 08-12-2014; libgit2 all versions up to 0.21.2; Egit all versions before 08-12-2014; and JGit all versions before 08-12-2014 allow remote Git servers to execute arbitrary commands via a tree containing a crafted .git/config file with (1) an ignorable Unicode codepoint, (2) a git~1/config representation, or (3) mixed case that is improperly handled on a case-insensitive filesystem.

also known as (6)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2020-02-12modified 2026-06-17

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references (28)

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