CVE-2020-12278: libgit2: files inside the .git directory may be overwritten during cloning via NTFS Alternate Data Streams

Severity: Critical

CVSS Score: 9.8

An issue was discovered in libgit2 before 0.28.4 and 0.9x before 0.99.0. path.c mishandles equivalent filenames that exist because of NTFS Alternate Data Streams. This may allow remote code execution when cloning a repository. This issue is similar to CVE-2019-1352.