Argument Injection in TortoiseGitBlame via Malicious Git History Filenames Leads to Arbitrary File Write in TortoiseGit
CVE-2026-11968
Score 5.5 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-06-24. a secondary CVSS source baseline 5.5; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 5.5
- EG Score
- 5.5(high)
- EG Risk
- 29(Track)EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity55% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS
- 2.6%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
June 24, 2026
Last Modified
June 25, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Jun 25, 2026Possible arbitrary file write in TortoiseGitBlame when issuing actions on previous revisions in repository with malicious Git history filenames (#4269) · Issues · TortoiseGit / TortoiseGit · GitLab
https://tortoisegit.org/issue/4269Properly encode all parameters passed to TortoiseGit tools (7052e3ef) · Commits · TortoiseGit / TortoiseGit · GitLab
https://gitlab.com/tortoisegit/tortoisegit/-/commit/7052e3ef61cd104f8a90fb3dcdfb403cbc8c1773Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-11968(1)
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Weakness Classification(1)
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Data Freshness Timeline
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