git/Documentation/RelNotes/2.17.4.txt

Git v2.17.4 Release Notes
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This release is to address the security issue: CVE-2020-5260

Fixes since v2.17.3
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 * With a crafted URL that contains a newline in it, the credential
   helper machinery can be fooled to give credential information for
   a wrong host.  The attack has been made impossible by forbidding
   a newline character in any value passed via the credential
   protocol.

Credit for finding the vulnerability goes to Felix Wilhelm of Google
Project Zero.