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SHA-1 collisions are not detected

Moderate
martinvonz published GHSA-794x-2rpg-rfgr Apr 5, 2025

Package

cargo jj-cli (Rust)

Affected versions

<= 0.28.0

Patched versions

0.28.1
cargo jj-lib (Rust)
<= 0.28.0
0.28.1

Description

Summary

Jujutsu 0.28.0 and earlier rely on versions of gitoxide that use SHA-1 hash implementations without any collision detection, leaving them vulnerable to hash collision attacks.

Details

This is a result of the underlying CVE-2025-31130 / GHSA-2frx-2596-x5r6 vulnerability in the gitoxide library Jujutsu uses to interact with Git repositories; see that advisory for technical details. This separate advisory is being issued due to the downstream impact on users of Jujutsu.

Impact

An attacker with the ability to mount a collision attack on SHA-1 like the SHAttered or SHA-1 is a Shambles attacks could create two distinct Git objects with the same hash. This is becoming increasingly affordable for well‐resourced attackers, with the Shambles researchers in 2020 estimating $45k for a chosen‐prefix collision or $11k for a classical collision, and projecting less than $10k for a chosen‐prefix collision by 2025. The result could be used to disguise malicious repository contents, or potentially exploit assumptions in Jujutsu’s logic to cause further vulnerabilities.

Severity

Moderate

CVE ID

No known CVE

Weaknesses

Use of Weak Hash

The product uses an algorithm that produces a digest (output value) that does not meet security expectations for a hash function that allows an adversary to reasonably determine the original input (preimage attack), find another input that can produce the same hash (2nd preimage attack), or find multiple inputs that evaluate to the same hash (birthday attack). Learn more on MITRE.

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