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)
- EPSS
- 2.5%
- 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)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
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- 2026-07-06 16:27 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-04 12:52 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-04 12:52 UTCGHSA enrichment
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- 2026-07-03 12:50 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-02 12:08 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-02 12:07 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-07-01 15:06 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-07-01 12:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-07-01 12:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-30 23:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-30 12:00 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-30 12:00 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-29 14:06 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-29 11:59 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-29 11:59 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 14:07 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-28 11:57 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-28 11:57 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-28 04:56 UTCEPSS rescore
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- 2026-06-27 11:56 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-27 11:56 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-27 03:08 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-26 11:55 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-26 11:55 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-25 13:49 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-25 11:53 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-25 11:53 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-06-24 14:05 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-06-24 11:51 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-06-24 11:50 UTCNVD updatefirst tracked
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