CVE-2026-72718

CVE Enrichment

CVSS: 7.0 HIGH
EPSS: 0.22%
EPSS Percentile: 11.45%
CISA KEV: Not listed

Description

goose is general-purpose AI agent that runs on your machine. Prior to 1.44.0, the `goose review` command runs the system `git` executable to gather the diff for review without stripping attacker-controlled Git configuration. A malicious repository whose `.git/config` sets [`core] fsmonitor = <command>` causes Git to execute that command on the host during the index refresh performed by `git diff HEAD`. The command runs before goose contacts a model and without a submitted prompt, model call, tool approval, or trust prompt. The context-gathering Git process is not sandboxed and is outside goose's tool-permission model. Arbitrary commands run with the privileges and environment of the user running goose, allowing file access or modification and exfiltration of environment secrets and provider API keys. The vulnerable Git invocations are built by git_command() in crates/goose-cli/src/commands/review/handler.rs and are used by touched_files() and collect_diff() for `git diff --name-only HEAD` and `git diff HEAD`. This issue is fixed in version 1.44.0.

Technical Details

CVSS Version: 4.0
CNA / NVD Source: [email protected]
Published: 10-Aug-2026 23:19
Last Modified: 10-Sep-2026 03:55
EPSS Date: 2026-10-22
CWE: CWE-94

CVSS Vector


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References

Last enrichment sync: 23-Oct-2026 02:55
Sources: NVD · FIRST EPSS · CISA KEV
Latest successful provider update; providers refresh independently.

Reported Context (1)

GitHub assigned CVE-2026-72718 a CVSS 4.0 base score of 7.0 in an advisory crediting Francisco Rosales, the only score any of these findings carries. Malicious Git Configurations Can Trigger Code Execution in AI Coding Agents

CVE (3)

People (1)

MITRE ATT&CK (1)

Vendors (6)

Products (9)

Industries (1)

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