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.
Published: 2026-11-04
Score: 4.4 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
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Fri, 06 Nov 2026 16:45:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Gitforwindows
Gitforwindows git
Vendors & Products Gitforwindows
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threat_severity

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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
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 4.4, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L'}


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Gitforwindows Git
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: GitHub_M

Published:

Updated: 2026-11-05T19:07:18.059Z

Reserved: 2026-09-25T20:08:33.084Z

Link: CVE-2026-100407

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Received

Published: 2026-11-04T15:17:21.797

Modified: 2026-11-05T19:16:59.770

Link: CVE-2026-100407

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-11-04T15:07:59Z

Links: CVE-2026-100407 - Bugzilla

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Updated: 2026-11-06T16:30:07Z

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