8.7

CVE-2026-82252: gitoxidelabs gitoxide Link Following

CVSS: 8.7v4.0HighDeferred
AliasesUBUNTU-CVE-2026-82252DEBIAN-CVE-2026-82252GHSA-pg4w-g64p-qwhj
Published 28-08-2026Last modified 29-08-2026
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Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-82252 is a high (CVSS 8.7) Link Following vulnerability in gitoxidelabs gitoxide. EPSS estimates a 0.52% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 43.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Overall risk
35/100
0100
Medium · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
8.7/10
010
High · v4.0 (CVE.org)
EPSS score
0.52%
0%100%
Low · +0.13 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. 29-08-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

gitoxide before 0.52.1 follows symlinks when reading the worktree .gitmodules file, allowing attackers to inject out-of-repository bytes into submodule metadata. Attackers can create a malicious repository with a symlinked .gitmodules pointing outside the repository tree, causing gitoxide to parse arbitrary external files as submodule configuration and expose attacker-controlled name, path, and url values.

CVSS metrics

8 scores · 5 sources · 2 versions

EPSS trend

Probability

0.52%

Chance of exploitation in the next 30 days

Percentile

43%

Versus all other CVEs

30-day change

+0.13 pp

From 0.39% on 20-09-2026

20-09-202620-10-2026
EPSS score
0.52%

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

Crates.Io2 products
  • gitoxide< 0.52.1
  • gix< 0.83.0
Debian1 product
  • rust-gixAll versions (No fix recorded) | < 0.83.0-1
Gitoxidelabs1 product
Ubuntu1 product
  • rust-gixAll versions (No fix recorded)

4 vendors · 5 products

References

7 links