Reported

January 20, 2023

Issued

January 21, 2023

Package

libgit2-sys (crates.io)

Type

Vulnerability

Categories

• crypto-failure

Keywords

#ssh #mitm #git

Aliases

• CVE-2023-22742
• GHSA-m4ch-rfv5-x5g3
• GHSA-8643-3wh5-rmjq

References

• https://github.com/rust-lang/git2-rs/security/advisories/GHSA-m4ch-rfv5-x5g3

Patched

• >=0.13.5, <0.14.0
• >=0.14.2

Description

The git2 and libgit2-sys crates are Rust wrappers around the libgit2 C library. It was discovered that libgit2 1.5.0 and below did not verify SSH host keys when establishing an SSH connection, exposing users of the library to Man-In-the-Middle attacks.

The libgit2 team assigned CVE-2023-22742 to this vulnerability. The following versions of the libgit2-sys Rust crate have been released:

• libgit2-sys 0.14.2, updating the underlying libgit2 C library to version 1.5.1.
• libgit2-sys 0.13.5, updating the underlying libgit2 C library to version 1.4.5.

A new git2 crate version has also been released, 0.16.1. This version only bumps its libgit2-sys dependency to ensure no vulnerable libgit2-sys versions are used, but contains no code changes: if you update the libgit2-sys version there is no need to also update the git2 crate version.

You can learn more about this vulnerability in libgit2's advisory

Advisory available under CC0-1.0 license.