CVE-2026-71556

A flaw was found in go-git, an extensible Git implementation library. Worktree operations, such as checkout, status, and add, resolve symbolic links within the working tree without proper boundary confinement. This allows a remote attacker to craft a malicious repository containing a symlink, which, when cloned and its worktree operations are used, can lead to reading from or writing to arbitrary files outside the intended working directory. This could result in information disclosure or arbitrary file modification.

go-git is a pure-Go implementation of Git. During worktree operations (checkout, status, add), go-git resolves symbolic links without confining resolution to the worktree boundary, so a maliciously crafted repository containing a symlink can cause a consuming application to read from or write to files outside the intended working directory when that repository is cloned and its worktree operations are used. Exploitation requires the application to clone an attacker-controlled repository and then perform worktree operations against it; applications that only process trusted repositories are not exposed. Red Hat rates the impact of this flaw as Important.

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To reduce the risk of exploitation, do not clone or run worktree operations (checkout, status, add) on Git repositories originating from untrusted or attacker-controllable sources using an affected version of go-git. The issue is resolved by updating to go-git 5.19.2 or 6.0.0-alpha.5 (or later).