CVE-2017-17831

mediumpriority · track · 36EPSS 0.037 · 90 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

3.68% (90th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

4 products

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Who says so?

4 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

GitHub Git LFS before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an ssh URL with an initial dash character in the hostname, located on a "url =" line in a .lfsconfig file within a repository.

cvss

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

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.8–8.8

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.08.8highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.08.1highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-20USprimaryCWE-20US

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
git large file storage project git large file storage< 2.1.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:git_large_file_storage_project:git_large_file_storage:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Go github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs< 2.1.1-0.20170519163204-f913f5f9c7c6osvUSpkg:golang/github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs
Go github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs< 2.1.1-0.20170519163204-f913f5f9c7c6+incompatibleosvUSpkg:golang/github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-w4xh-w33p-4v29GitHub Git LFS Arbitrary command execution vulnerability2022-05-14ghsa · osvUS
GitHub Git LFS before 2.1.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via an ssh URL with an initial dash character in the hostname, located on a `url =` line in a `.lfsconfig` file within a repository. ### Specific Go Packages Affected github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs/lfsapi
GO-2021-0073Arbitrary command execution in github.com/git-lfs/git-lfs2021-04-14vendor · osvUS
Arbitrary command execution can be triggered by improperly sanitized SSH URLs in LFS configuration files. This can be triggered by cloning a malicious repository.

also known as (5)

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 2017-12-21modified 2026-06-17

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references (16)

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