Pierluigi Paganini
February 06, 2026
A study found nearly 5 million servers exposing Git metadata, with 250,000 leaking deployment credentials via .git/config files. A new 2026 study by the Mysterium VPN research team reveals that nearly 5 million public web servers are exposing Git repository metadata — with over 250,000 of them exposing .git/config files containing deployment credentials. Such misconfigurations […]
Pierluigi Paganini
January 18, 2023
The maintainers of the Git source code version control system urge to update the software to fix two critical vulnerabilities. The maintainers of the Git source code version control system announced to have fixed a couple of critical vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-23521 and CVE-2022-41903, in their software. The flaws were discovered as part of a security source code audit of the source […]
Pierluigi Paganini
May 30, 2018
The Git community disclosed a dangerous vulnerability in Git, tracked as CVE-2018-11235, that can lead to arbitrary code execution when a user operates in a malicious repository. The Git developer team and other firms offering Git repository hosting services have issued security updates to address a remote code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-11235 in the Git […]
