What is CVE-2024-50349?

CVE-2024-50349 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Git, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2025-01-14.

How severe is CVE-2024-50349?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.

Is CVE-2024-50349 known to be exploited?

6 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

Vulnerability in Git

CVE-2024-50349

Git is a fast, scalable, distributed revision control system with an unusually rich command set that provides both high-level operations and full access to internals. When Git asks for credentials via a terminal prompt (i.e. without using any credential helper), it prints out the host name for which the user is expected to provide a username and/or a password. At this stage, any URL-encoded parts have been decoded already, and are printed verbatim. This allows attackers to craft URLs that contain ANSI escape sequences that the terminal interpret to confuse users e.g. into providing passwords for trusted Git hosting sites when in fact they are then sent to untrusted sites that are under the attacker's control. This issue has been patch via commits `7725b81` and `c903985` which are included in release versions v2.48.1, v2.47.2, v2.46.3, v2.45.3, v2.44.3, v2.43.6, v2.42.4, v2.41.3, and v2.40.4. Users are advised to upgrade. Users unable to upgrade should avoid cloning from untrusted URLs, especially recursive clones.

Published 2025-01-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.7 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:N.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.007 (49.9th percentile), scored 2026-09-29.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 50th percentile — 49.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.007 · newest: 0.007 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Git — versions >= 2.47.0, < 2.47.2, >= 2.46.0, <= 2.46.2, >= 2.45.0, <= 2.45.2
Debian Linux — versions 11.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

github.com/git/git/security/advisories/GHSA-hmg8-h7qf-7cxr (Patch, Vendor Advisory)
github.com/git/git/commit/7725b8100ffbbff2750ee4d61a0fcc1f53a086e8 (Patch)
github.com/git/git/commit/c903985bf7e772e2d08275c1a95c8a55ab011577 (Patch)
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 (Mailing List, Third Party Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2024-50349?: CVE-2024-50349 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Git, classified under Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output. CVSS score: 4.7/10. Published 2025-01-14.
How severe is CVE-2024-50349?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.7 out of 10.
Is CVE-2024-50349 known to be exploited?: 6 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.