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GHSA-hxwm-x553-x359
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Summary
There exists a command injection vulnerability in npmcli/git versions <2.0.8 which may result in arbitrary shell command execution due to improper argument sanitization when npmcli/git is used to execute Git commands based on user controlled input.
The impact of this issue is possible Arbitrary Command Injection when npmcli/git is run with untrusted (user controlled) Git command arguments.
Impact
Arbitrary Command Injection
Details
npmcli/git prior to release 2.0.8 passed user controlled input as arguments to a shell command without properly sanitizing this input. Passing unsanitized input to a shell can lead to arbitrary command injection. For example passing git+https://github.com/npm/git; echo hello world would trigger the shell execution of echo hello world.
This issue was remediated by no longer running npmcli/git git commands through an intermediate shell.
Patches
This issue has been patched in release 2.0.8
Acknowledgements
This report was reported to us by @tyage (Ierae Security) through the GitHub Bug Bounty Program.
Measures severity based on intrinsic characteristics of the vulnerability, independent of environment.
No exploitation activity has been observed at this time. Continue routine monitoring.
Probability that this vulnerability will be exploited in the wild within the next 30 days.
We did not find any exploit available. Neither in GitHub repositories nor in the Exploit-Database.
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