Re: Security Vulnerability in Git 2.54.0/OpenSSL 3.5.6 Status

[Todd Zullinger <tmz@pobox.com>]

Hi,

Person, Tim wrote:
> I am writing to determine when Git plans to release an
> update installer to patch the security vulnerability in
> Git 2.54.0 because of the included OpenSSL executable.
> This vulnerability is rated "Critical" in the CVE
> (https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-34182). An
> updated version of the OpenSSL.exe fixing this problem has
> been available since 06/12/2026. I am just wondering
> if/when you plan to address this major security issue.

The Git project does not distribute any binaries.  You
likely want to direct this to the Git for Windows project¹.

That said, it's not even clear to me that the CVE you
reference affects git's usage of OpenSSL.

From a little skimming, the issue affects use of CMS (which
is something like the successor to S/MIME, as far as I can
tell).

The only place where git gets close to that area is if you
configure it to use x509 as gpg.program.  And then git uses
gpgsm, which is not affected by the CVE in OpenSSL.

¹ https://gitforwindows.org/

-- 
Todd