8.6

CVE-2025-27614: j6t gitk OS Command Injection

CVSS: 8.6v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2025-27614UBUNTU-CVE-2025-27614DEBIAN-CVE-2025-27614
Published 10-07-2025Last modified 04-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-27614 is a high (CVSS 8.6) OS Command Injection vulnerability in j6t gitk. EPSS estimates a 0.43% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 35.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
34/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.6/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.43%
0%100%
Low · +0.05 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 9 · Related 6
OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15337-1RHSA-2025:11462RHSA-2025:11533RHSA-2025:11534SUSE-SU-2025:03012-1SUSE-SU-2025:03037-1

Timeline

  1. 10-07-2025
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 04-11-2025
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

Gitk is a Tcl/Tk based Git history browser. Starting with 2.41.0, a Git repository can be crafted in such a way that with some social engineering a user who has cloned the repository can be tricked into running any script (e.g., Bourne shell, Perl, Python, ...) supplied by the attacker by invoking gitk filename, where filename has a particular structure. The script is run with the privileges of the user. This vulnerability is fixed in 2.43.7, 2.44.4, 2.45.4, 2.46.4, 2.47.3, 2.48.2, 2.49.1, and 2.50.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.43%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

36%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.05 pp

From 0.38% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.43%

Known exploited

Compare KEV catalogs

Not in any of the 3 tracked catalogs.

Public exploits

0 found

No public exploits indexed.

Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

Affected systems

Alpine1 product
  • git< 2.43.7-r0 | < 2.45.4-r0 | < 2.47.3-r0 | < 2.49.1-r0 | < 2.50.1-r0
Debian1 product
  • git< 1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1 | < 1:2.50.1-0.1
J6t1 product
  • gitk≥ 2.41.0, < 2.43.7 | ≥ 2.44.0, < 2.44.4 | ≥ 2.45.0, < 2.45.4 | ≥ 2.46.0, < 2.46.4 | ≥ 2.47.0, < 2.47.3 | ≥ 2.48.0, < 2.48.2 | ≥ 2.49.0, < 2.49.1 | ≥ 2.50.0, < 2.50.1
Ubuntu1 product
  • git< 1:2.43.0-1ubuntu7.3

4 vendors · 4 products

References

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