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GHSA-2c47-m757-32g6
No affected components available
Summary
The ejson2env tool has a vulnerability related to how it writes to stdout. Specifically, the tool is intended to write an export statement for environment variables and their values. However, due to inadequate output sanitization, there is a potential risk where variable names or values may include malicious content, resulting in additional unintended commands being output to stdout. If this output is improperly utilized in further command execution, it could lead to command injection vulnerabilities, allowing an attacker to execute arbitrary commands on the host system.
Details
The vulnerability exists because environment variables are not properly sanitized during the decryption phase, which enables malicious keys or encrypted values to inject commands.
Impact
An attacker with control over .ejson files can inject commands in the environment where source $(ejson2env) or eval ejson2env are executed.
Mitigation
- Update to a version of
ejson2envthat sanitizes the output during decryption or - Do not use
ejson2envto decrypt untrusted user secrets or - Do not evaluate or execute the direct output from
ejson2envwithout removing nonprintable characters.
Credit
Thanks to security researcher Demonia for reporting this issue.
The vulnerability can be exploited over the network without needing physical access. It is difficult for an attacker to exploit this vulnerability and may require special conditions. An attacker needs high-level or administrative privileges. No user interaction is needed for the attacker to exploit this vulnerability. The impact is confined to the system where the vulnerability exists. There is a high impact on the confidentiality of the information. There is a high impact on the integrity of the data. There is a high impact on the availability of the system.
Exploitation attempts have been detected. Elevated vigilance and prompt remediation are advised.
The exploit probability is very low. The vulnerability is unlikely to be exploited in the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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