Arbitrary Argument Injection Affecting prefect package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.3% (22nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-PYTHON-PREFECT-17675611
  • published29 Jun 2026
  • disclosed24 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 May 2026

CVE-2026-3515  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-88  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for prefect.

Overview

prefect is a Prefect is a new workflow management system, designed for modern infrastructure and powered by the open-source Prefect Core workflow engine. Users organize Tasks into Flows, and Prefect takes care of the rest.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary Argument Injection via the reference field in the GitHubRepository block, which is concatenated directly into a git clone command string without proper sanitization and then parsed by shlex.split(). An attacker can execute arbitrary git command-line options by supplying crafted input, potentially leading to server-side request forgery, credential theft, or remote code execution.

References

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1