Vulnerability · Published Nov 12, 2025 · Assigned by GitHub_M
CVE-2024-45301ZDI-CAN-24744: Mintty Path Conversion Improper Input Validation Information Disclosure Vulnerability
Medium 5.3
In plain English
A medium-severity improper input validation in mintty from mintty. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.3% (higher than 24% of all known vulnerabilities).
Official description
Mintty is a terminal emulator for Cygwin, MSYS, and WSL. In versions 2.3.6 through 3.7.4, several escape sequences can cause the mintty process to access a file in a specific path. It is triggered by simply printing them out on bash. An attacker can specify an arbitrary network path, negotiate an ntlm hash out of the victim's machine to an attacker controlled remote host. An attacker can use password cracking tools or NetNTLMv2 hashes to Pass the Hash. Version 3.7.5 fixes the issue.
Affected products (as reported)
Weakness: CWE-20 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
References
- https://github.com/mintty/mintty/security/advisories/GHSA-jf4m-m6rv-p6c5 x_refsource_CONFIRM