{"apiVersion":"1.0","identifier":"CVE-2026-53584","description":"libgit2 is a portable C implementation of the Git core methods provided as a linkable library with a solid API, allowing to build Git functionality into your application. Prior to 1.8.6 and 1.9.5, libgit2 does not reject traversal components in a submodule path loaded from .gitmodules. The affected src/libgit2/submodule.c paths include git_submodule_lookup and git_submodule_add_setup. A crafted repository can specify a path such as ../escape-target, and applications that initialize the submodule can create directories outside the repository working tree. This issue is fixed in versions 1.8.6 and 1.9.5.","publishedAt":"2026-08-20T19:16:54","lastModifiedAt":"2026-08-20T20:17:34","sourceUrl":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53584","cvssScore":4.3,"cvssVector":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N","epssProbability":0.00328,"riskScore":0.44,"affectedProduct":"libgit2","affectedVersions":"<1.8.6, <1.9.5","vulnerabilityType":"Library","operatingSystems":[],"links":{"self":"https://www.redsauce.net/api/cves/CVE-2026-53584","webPages":{"es":"https://www.redsauce.net/es/cves/CVE-2026-53584","en":"https://www.redsauce.net/en/cves/CVE-2026-53584","fr":"https://www.redsauce.net/fr/cves/CVE-2026-53584","pt":"https://www.redsauce.net/pt/cves/CVE-2026-53584","de":"https://www.redsauce.net/de/cves/CVE-2026-53584","sk":"https://www.redsauce.net/sk/cves/CVE-2026-53584","el":"https://www.redsauce.net/el/cves/CVE-2026-53584"},"source":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-53584"}}