CVE-2018-17456

An option injection flaw has been discovered in git when it recursively clones a repository with sub-modules. A remote attacker may configure a malicious repository and trick a user into recursively cloning it, thus executing arbitrary commands on the victim's machine.

OpenShift Container Platform (OCP) source-to-image uses the git client packaged with the OCP container images. Since RHEL7 and its associated images are impacted, source-to-image is also impacted. The atomic-openshift package running on the masters controls the code that determines the source-to-image build image in use, therefore a cluster update is required to patch this issue. Full instructions will be provided in Security Errata provided for this issue.

In OCP 3.6 and earlier, source-to-image executes in a privileged container on the node. Therefore the severity of this CVE is important for these versions. OCP 3.7 and later execute source-to-image git pulls in an unprivileged init container.

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