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caust1c on July 8, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RC...

Yes, unfortunately it's pretty trivial. Any time arbitrary file write is possible, RCE is usually possible too.

lostmsu on July 9, 2025 [–]

Could this be mitigated by moving .git out of work tree directory and using unprivileged process that only has access to work tree directory to do all the file manipulation?

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