Git for Windows, the Windows port of Git, ships with an executable called `connect.exe`, which implements a SOCKS5 proxy that can be used to connect e.g. to SSH servers via proxies when certain ports are blocked for outgoing connections. The location of `connect.exe`'s config file is hard-coded as `/etc/connectrc` which will typically be interpreted as `C:\etc\connectrc`. Since `C:\etc` can be created by any authenticated user, this makes `connect.exe` susceptible to malicious files being placed there by other users on the same multi-user machine. The problem has been patched in Git for Windows v2.40.1. As a workaround, create the folder `etc` on all drives where Git commands are run, and remove read/write access from those folders. Alternatively, watch out for malicious `<drive>:\etc\connectrc` files on multi-user machines.
                
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 MITRE
                        MITRE
                    Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2023-04-25T20:40:30.247Z
Updated: 2025-02-03T18:07:25.939Z
Reserved: 2023-03-29T17:39:16.143Z
Link: CVE-2023-29011
 Vulnrichment
                        Vulnrichment
                    Updated: 2024-08-02T14:00:14.373Z
 NVD
                        NVD
                    Status : Modified
Published: 2023-04-25T21:15:10.480
Modified: 2024-11-21T07:56:23.420
Link: CVE-2023-29011
 Redhat
                        Redhat
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