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gitfan86 on July 9, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Breaking Git with a carriage return and cloning RC...

Just using git isn't the vulnerability. The vulnerability is that you clone a repo that an attacker was able to put this in. 90% of the time this would happen it would be due to an attacker creating a PR on a public repo.

kragen on July 11, 2025 [–]

Many public repos aren't on GitHub.

gitfan86 on July 11, 2025 | [–]

Many people use IE 11. Still an edge case.

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