CVE-2026-100407Git for Windows: git-credential-wincred OAuth Store Heap Overflow
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.
Overview
Severity
| Score | Severity | Version | Vector String |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4.4 | MEDIUM | 3.1GitHub_M (CNA) | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L |
Details
- CVE ID
- CVE-2026-100407
- Status
- Received
- Assigner (CNA)
- GitHub_M
- Published
- Nov 4, 2026
- Last modified
- 2026-11-05 19:16 UTC
- Weaknesses
- CWE-787 · Out-of-bounds Write
Affected Products
As published by the CNA in the CVE record.
git-for-windowsgit1 version range
- >= 2.44.0.windows.1, < 2.55.0.windows.3