Command Injection Affecting git-commiters package, versions <0.1.2
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- published23 Sept 2025
- disclosed22 Sept 2025
- creditLiran Tal
Introduced: 22 Sep 2025
CVE-2025-59831 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade git-commiters to version 0.1.2 or higher.
Overview
git-commiters is a Statistical summary of various infomation about git commiter.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via the gitCommiters() API which allows specifying options such as cwd for current working directory and revisionRange as a revision pointer, such as HEAD without proper sanitization. An attacker can execute arbitrary system commands by supplying crafted input to the revisionRange option.
PoC
- Install
git-commiters@0.1.1or earlier - Initialize a new Git directory with commits in it
- Create the following script in that directory:
var gitCommiters = require("git-commiters");
var options = { cwd: "./", revisionRange: "HEAD; touch /tmp/pwn; #", }; gitCommiters(options, function (err, result) { if (err) console.log(err); else console.log(result); });
- Observe new file created on disk at
/tmp/pwn