Security Advisory

CVE-2026-73620

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-08-13 11:28:21
Last updated 2026-08-14 16:52:39
Assigner VulnCheck
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

GitPython before 3.1.57 fails to guard git option forwarding in IndexFile.checkout() and TagReference.create(), allowing attackers to pass unsafe options via kwargs. Attackers can use --prefix to overwrite arbitrary files with repository content or -F to read arbitrary files returned in-band.