3.1

CVE-2026-82249: gitoxidelabs gitoxide Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output

CVSS: 3.1v3.1LowDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-82249DEBIAN-CVE-2026-82249
Published 28-08-2026Last modified 28-08-2026

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-82249 is a low (CVSS 3.1) Improper Encoding or Escaping of Output vulnerability in gitoxidelabs gitoxide. EPSS estimates a 0.27% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 17.6% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
12/100
0100
Low · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
3.1/10
010
Low · v3.1 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.27%
0%100%
Low · +0.10 pp in 30 days
KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Timeline

  1. 28-08-2026
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 28-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

gitoxide before 0.38.2 fails to validate carriage return characters in URL values passed to credential helpers. Attackers can supply URLs containing bare carriage returns to inject additional helper protocol fields and cause credential helpers to return credentials for attacker-specified hosts instead of the requested URL.

CVSS metrics

7 scores · 4 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.27%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

18%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.10 pp

From 0.17% on 19-09-2026

19-09-202619-10-2026
EPSS score
0.27%

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

Debian1 product
  • rust-gix-credentialsAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.39.1-1
Gitoxidelabs1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • rust-gix-credentialsAll versions (No fix recorded)

3 vendors · 3 products

References

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