{"id":"CVE-2026-52726","summary":"Dulwich's submodule path traversal in porcelain.submodule_update / porcelain.clone(recurse_submodules=True) yields RCE via attacker-dropped .git/hooks payload","details":"Dulwich is a pure-Python implementation of the Git file formats and protocols. Starting in version 0.23.2 and prior to version 1.2.5, `dulwich.porcelain.submodule_update`, and by extension `porcelain.clone(..., recurse_submodules=True)`, materializes attacker-controlled submodule paths from a crafted upstream repository without path validation. A malicious `.gitmodules` plus a matching tree gitlink whose `path` is `.git/hooks` (or any other directory inside the parent repository's `.git` directory) causes the attacker's submodule tree contents to be written directly into the victim's `.git/hooks/` directory, preserving executable mode bits. The dropped executables are then run by any subsequent `git` or `dulwich` command that invokes the matching hook, resulting in arbitrary code execution. This is the dulwich equivalent of the upstream Git fixes for CVE-2024-32002 / CVE-2024-32004, which were never propagated into dulwich's separately implemented submodule porcelain. Version 1.2.5 patches the issue.","aliases":["GHSA-gfhv-vqv2-4544","PYSEC-2026-2465"],"modified":"2026-08-04T11:49:16.377020972Z","published":"2026-06-10T22:13:33.320Z","database_specific":{"cna_assigner":"GitHub_M","cwe_ids":["CWE-22"],"osv_generated_from":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/52xxx/CVE-2026-52726.json"},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich/releases/tag/dulwich-1.2.5"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/52xxx/CVE-2026-52726.json"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich/security/advisories/GHSA-gfhv-vqv2-4544"},{"type":"ADVISORY","url":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-52726"}],"affected":[{"ranges":[{"type":"GIT","repo":"https://github.com/jelmer/dulwich","events":[{"introduced":"95cb5d742fd59fd4cc663a7842f7b0198acab922"},{"fixed":"073f4dfa9840af2da59887ed828b026b609faa6c"}],"database_specific":{"extracted_events":[{"introduced":"0.23.2"},{"fixed":"1.2.5"}],"source":"AFFECTED_FIELD"}}],"versions":["dulwich-1.2.4","dulwich-1.2.3","dulwich-1.2.2","dulwich-1.2.1","dulwich-1.2.0","dulwich-1.1.0","dulwich-1.0.0","dulwich-0.25.2","dulwich-0.25.1","dulwich-0.25.0","dulwich-0.24.8","dulwich-0.24.7","dulwich-0.24.6","dulwich-0.24.5","dulwich-0.24.2","dulwich-0.24.1","dulwich-0.24.0","dulwich-0.23.2"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2026-52726.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.8.0","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"}]}