DEBIAN-CVE-2026-122299: High severity debian/dulwich vulnerability
Dulwich before 1.2.20 contains a commit object parsing vulnerability where the read path in parsecommit resolves a duplicate tree header to the last occurrence instead of the first, diverging from core git's resolution behavior, while Poetry 2.5.1 ships this version and uses dulwich by default for git dependency installation. Attackers can craft a commit object with two tree headers so that reviewers and CI using git see a benign tree while Poetry's dulwich-based checkout resolves to a different attacker-controlled tree containing malicious build scripts such as setup.py, resulting in unreviewed code execution on the install or build host.
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Remediation
Recommended actions to resolve this vulnerability, in priority order.
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dulwichto a version that resolves this vulnerability.Fixed in 1.2.20