Medium
Security advisory
The http_connect function in transports/http.c in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging clobbering of the error variable.
- Products
- Not specified
- Affected versions
- Not specified
- Fixed versions
- Not specified
- CVEs
- CVE-2016-10130
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
- Not specified
- Updated in this feed
- 31 Oct 2026, 12:09 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
The http_connect function in transports/http.c in libgit2 before 0.24.6 and 0.25.x before 0.25.1 might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof servers by leveraging clobbering of the error variable.
osv:CVE-2016-10130
Complete source record
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