{
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "id": "GHSA-h4pp-whcf-mhp8",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:46:50Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:27:05Z",
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-15298"
  ],
  "details": "Git through 2.14.2 mishandles layers of tree objects, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a crafted repository, aka a Git bomb. This can also have an impact of disk consumption; however, an affected process typically would not survive its attempt to build the data structure in memory before writing to disk.",
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
    }
  ],
  "affected": [],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15298"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Katee/git-bomb"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://kate.io/blog/git-bomb"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://usn.ubuntu.com/3829-1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00003.html"
    }
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-400"
    ],
    "severity": "MODERATE",
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-10-14T22:29:00Z"
  }
}