CVE-2026-100408

MEDIUM

MEDIUM Priority: 0.01 BB Relevance: 34/100

Published: 2026-11-04 Modified: 2026-11-04 First seen: 2026-11-04 Status: active

Attack Surface

Low Complexity No Auth

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV: Local

AC: Low

PR: None

UI: Required

S: Unchanged

C: None

I: Low

A: Low

Description

Git for Windows is the Windows port of Git. From 2.43.0.windows.1 until 2.55.0.windows.3, when a matching git:* credential exists in Windows Credential Manager and a git-credential-wincred erase input includes a password field, the operation in contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c allocates a buffer of exactly CredentialBlobSize bytes in match_cred_password() and then uses wcsncpy_s() to copy the corresponding number of wide characters plus a terminating NUL. The destination capacity is also supplied in bytes instead of WCHAR elements, allowing a fixed two-byte NUL write past the allocation before the password comparison determines whether CredDeleteW() should remove the credential; erase without a password field does not enter this comparison path. The helper can terminate with Windows heap-corruption status, and git credential reject can appear successful while the rejected credential remains stored. This issue is fixed in version 2.55.0.windows.3.