Is CVE-2026-76217 being exploited?

No public exploit is currently tracked.

How severe is CVE-2026-76217?

CVE-2026-76217 has a CVSS v3 severity of MEDIUM (6.5).

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CVE-2026-76217

Description

GitPython versions before 3.1.58 fail to validate options passed to git rm and git checkout commands in IndexFile.remove() and Head.checkout(). Attackers can supply --pathspec-from-file and --pathspec-file-nul parameters to read arbitrary files accessible to the process, with full file contents returned in GitCommandError.stderr.