Severity
7.8HIGH
EPSS
0.1%
top 75.27%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedApr 25
Latest updateJun 13
Description
Git for Windows, the Windows port of Git, ships with an executable called `connect.exe`, which implements a SOCKS5 proxy that can be used to connect e.g. to SSH servers via proxies when certain ports are blocked for outgoing connections. The location of `connect.exe`'s config file is hard-coded as `/etc/connectrc` which will typically be interpreted as `C:\etc\connectrc`. Since `C:\etc` can be created by any authenticated user, this makes `connect.exe` susceptible to malicious files being placed…
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 0.8 | Impact: 6.0