8.5

CVE-2025-46835: j6t git-gui Argument Injection

CVSS: 8.5v3.1HighDeferred
AliasesALPINE-CVE-2025-46835UBUNTU-CVE-2025-46835DEBIAN-CVE-2025-46835
Published 10-07-2025Last modified 04-11-2025
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2025-46835 is a high (CVSS 8.5) Argument Injection vulnerability in j6t git-gui. EPSS estimates a 0.61% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 48.3% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
34/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.5/10
010
High · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.61%
0%100%
Low · +0.07 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 0 · Downstream 11 · Related 9
DLA-4323-1OPENSUSE-SU-2025:15337-1RHSA-2025:11462RHSA-2025:11533RHSA-2025:11534SUSE-SU-2025:03012-1

Timeline

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

Description

Git GUI allows you to use the Git source control management tools via a GUI. When a user clones an untrusted repository and is tricked into editing a file located in a maliciously named directory in the repository, then Git GUI can create and overwrite files for which the user has write permission. 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 2.50.1.

CVSS metrics

5 scores · 5 sources · 1 version

EPSS trend

Probability

0.61%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

48%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.07 pp

From 0.54% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.61%

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< 1:2.39.5-0+deb12u3 | < 1:2.47.3-0+deb13u1 | < 1:2.50.1-0.1
J6t1 product
  • git-gui< 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< 1:2.7.4-0ubuntu1.10+esm11 | < 1:2.17.1-1ubuntu0.18+esm4 | < 1:2.25.1-1ubuntu3.14+esm3 | < 1:2.34.1-1ubuntu1.15 | < 1:2.43.0-1ubuntu7.3

4 vendors · 4 products

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