CVE-2014-9706

highpriority · track · 32EPSS 0.050 · 92 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

5.00% (92nd) EPSS

CVSS 7.5 · high

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5 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-28

The build_index_from_tree function in index.py in Dulwich before 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a commit with a directory path starting with .git/, which is not properly handled when checking out a working tree.

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 · medium–critical · 6.4–9.8

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

v2.06.4mediumAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

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

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-19USprimary

affected products (5)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
debian debian linux= 7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
dulwich project dulwich≤ 0.9.8nvdUScpe:2.3:a:dulwich_project:dulwich:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI dulwich< 0.9.10osvUSpkg:pypi/dulwich
PyPI dulwich< 0.9.9osvUSpkg:pypi/dulwich

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-4j5j-58j7-6c3wDulwich Arbitrary code execution via commit with directory path starting with .git2022-05-17ghsa · osvUS
The `build_index_from_tree` function in index.py in Dulwich versions 0.9.9 and below allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a commit with a directory path starting with `.git/`, which is not properly handled when checking out a working tree.
PYSEC-2015-342015-03-31vendor · osvUS
The build_index_from_tree function in index.py in Dulwich before 0.9.9 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a commit with a directory path starting with .git/, which is not properly handled when checking out a working tree.

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sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2015-03-31modified 2026-06-17

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references (19)

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