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Command Injection Affecting cocoapods-downloader package, versions <1.6.0 >=1.6.2, <1.6.3

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity High
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    Exploit Maturity Proof of concept
    EPSS 0.16% (52nd percentile)
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NVD
9.8 critical

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-RUBY-COCOAPODSDOWNLOADER-2414278
  • published 1 Apr 2022
  • disclosed 2 Mar 2022
  • credit Alessio Della Libera of Snyk Research Team
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Introduced: 2 Mar 2022

CVE-2022-24440 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-78 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-88 Open this link in a new tab
First added by Snyk

How to fix?

Upgrade cocoapods-downloader to version 1.6.0, 1.6.3 or higher.

Overview

cocoapods-downloader is an A small library for downloading files from remotes in a folder.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Command Injection via git argument injection. When calling the Pod::Downloader.preprocess_options function and using git, both the git and branch parameters are passed to the git ls-remote subcommand in a way that additional flags can be set. The additional flags can be used to perform a command injection.

PoC 

require 'cocoapods-downloader'

options = { :git => '--upload-pack=touch ./HELLO1;', :branch => 'foo'}
options = Pod::Downloader.preprocess_options(options)

# ls -la

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