USN-7977-1: Git LFS vulnerabilities

USN-7977-1: Git LFS vulnerabilities

https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/rss.xml / Mon, 01/26/2026 - 19:59
Ryota K discovered that Git LFS may leak login credentials in certain instances due to failing to check for URL-encoded characters. An attacker could possibly use this issue to learn sensitive information. (CVE-2024-53263) It was discovered that Git LFS could have its git lfs checkout and git lfs pull commands abused to write to any file on a user's system. An attacker could possibly use this issue to execute arbitrary code. This issue was only addressed in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and Ubuntu 25.10. (CVE-2025-26625)

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