GitoxideLabs Gitoxide up to 0.51.x Symlink Worktree path traversal

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A vulnerability described as problematic has been identified in GitoxideLabs Gitoxide up to 0.51.x. Affected by this issue is some unknown functionality of the component Symlink Worktree Handler. Such manipulation leads to path traversal. This vulnerability is documented as CVE-2026-82252. The attack can be executed remotely. There is not any exploit available.

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A vulnerability was found in GitoxideLabs Gitoxide up to 0.51.x and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is an unknown code block of the component Symlink Worktree Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a path traversal vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-22. The product uses external input to construct a pathname that is intended to identify a file or directory that is located underneath a restricted parent directory, but the product does not properly neutralize special elements within the pathname that can cause the pathname to resolve to a location that is outside of the restricted directory. Impacted is confidentiality. CVE summarizes:

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.

The advisory is shared for download at github.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2026-82252 since 08/28/2026. The exploitation is known to be easy. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. There are neither technical details nor an exploit publicly available. The MITRE ATT&CK project declares the attack technique as T1006.

Upgrading to version 0.52.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at EUVD (EUVD-2026-67704). Once again VulDB remains the best source for vulnerability data.

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Vendor

• GitoxideLabs

Name

• Gitoxide

Version

• 0.1
• 0.2
• 0.3
• 0.4
• 0.5
• 0.6
• 0.7
• 0.8
• 0.9
• 0.10
• 0.11
• 0.12
• 0.13
• 0.14
• 0.15
• 0.16
• 0.17
• 0.18
• 0.19
• 0.20
• 0.21
• 0.22
• 0.23
• 0.24
• 0.25
• 0.26
• 0.27
• 0.28
• 0.29
• 0.30
• 0.31
• 0.32
• 0.33
• 0.34
• 0.35
• 0.36
• 0.37
• 0.38
• 0.39
• 0.40
• 0.41
• 0.42
• 0.43
• 0.44
• 0.45
• 0.46
• 0.47
• 0.48
• 0.49
• 0.50
• 0.51

Website

• Product: https://github.com/GitoxideLabs/gitoxide/

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