Git for Windows is the Windows port of Git. From 2.44.0.windows.1 until 2.55.0.windows.3, the git-credential-wincred store operation in contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c uses _scwprintf() to size a formatted wide-character credential buffer without space for the terminating NUL when both password and oauth_refresh_token are present. The operation also passes a byte count to _snwprintf_s() where a wide-character count is required, allowing the terminator to be written one WCHAR past the heap allocation before CredWriteW() persists the credential. The resulting fixed two-byte NUL overwrite can terminate the helper with Windows heap-corruption status and can cause git credential approve to report success even though the OAuth credential was not stored. This issue is fixed in version 2.55.0.windows.3.
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| Description | Git for Windows is the Windows port of Git. From 2.44.0.windows.1 until 2.55.0.windows.3, the git-credential-wincred store operation in contrib/credential/wincred/git-credential-wincred.c uses _scwprintf() to size a formatted wide-character credential buffer without space for the terminating NUL when both password and oauth_refresh_token are present. The operation also passes a byte count to _snwprintf_s() where a wide-character count is required, allowing the terminator to be written one WCHAR past the heap allocation before CredWriteW() persists the credential. The resulting fixed two-byte NUL overwrite can terminate the helper with Windows heap-corruption status and can cause git credential approve to report success even though the OAuth credential was not stored. This issue is fixed in version 2.55.0.windows.3. | |
| Title | Git for Windows: git-credential-wincred OAuth Store Heap Overflow | |
| Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: GitHub_M
Published: 2026-11-04T15:07:59.401Z
Updated: 2026-11-05T19:07:18.059Z
Reserved: 2026-09-25T20:08:33.084Z
Link: CVE-2026-100407
Updated: 2026-11-05T19:07:11.734Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-11-04T15:17:21.797
Modified: 2026-11-12T20:04:52.377
Link: CVE-2026-100407