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The most complete workaround is to disable credential helpers altogether: |
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The most complete workaround is to disable credential helpers |
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altogether: |
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git config --unset credential.helper |
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git config --global --unset credential.helper |
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git config --system --unset credential.helper |
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An alternative is to avoid malicious URLs: |
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1. Examine the hostname and username portion of URLs fed to git clone for the presence of encoded newlines (%0a) or evidence of credential-protocol injections (e.g., host=github.com) |
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2. Avoid using submodules with untrusted repositories (don't use clone --recurse-submodules; use git submodule update only after examining the URLs found in .gitmodules) |
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1. Examine the hostname and username portion of URLs fed to git clone |
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for the presence of encoded newlines (%0a) or evidence of credential- |
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protocol injections (e.g., host=github.com) |
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2. Avoid using submodules with untrusted repositories (don't use clone |
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--recurse-submodules; use git submodule update only after examining the |
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URLs found in .gitmodules) |
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3. Avoid tools which may run git clone on untrusted URLs under the hood |